Late Miocene Teeth from Middle Awash, Ethiopia, and Early Hominid Dental Evolution

Science

Volumn 303, Issue 5663, 2004, Pages 1503-1505

  Haile Selassie, Yohannes ^a   Suwa, Gen ^b   White, Tim D ^c  

^a CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; ECOSYSTEMS;

APES; FOSSILS;

ECOLOGY;

EVOLUTION; FOSSIL ASSEMBLAGE; MIOCENE; MORPHOLOGY; TOOTH;

ARDIPITHECUS KADABBA; ARDIPITHECUS RAMIDUS; ARTICLE; CANINE TOOTH; ETHIOPIA; EVOLUTION; FOSSIL; HOMINID; MIOCENE; ORRORIN; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SAHELANTHROPUS; TOOTH;

ANIMALS; BICUSPID; CUSPID; DENTAL ENAMEL; DENTITION; ETHIOPIA; EVOLUTION; FOSSILS; HOMINIDAE; HUMANS; PALEODONTOLOGY;

ARDIPITHECUS; ARDIPITHECUS RAMIDUS; HOMINIDAE; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 1542347684     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1092978     Document Type: Article

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27. We thank the Authority for Research and Conservation of Cultural Heritage of the Ministry of Youth, Sports and Culture, Ethiopia, for field permits; the National Museum of Ethiopia for access to the Paleoanthropological Laboratory in Addis Ababa; G. WoldeGabriel B. Asfaw, F. Bibi, L. Hlusko, C. Pehlevan, and many local Afar people for assistance; the Cleveland Museum of Natural History and the Royal Museum of Central Africa (Tervuren, Belgium) for access to their collections; and L. Gudz, H. Gilbert, and G. Petusky for illustrations and photography. Supported by the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (G.S.). The Middle Awash fieldwork was supported by NSF grants SBR-9318698, SBR-9512534, SBR-9714432, BCS-9910344, and BC5-0321893.