Anthropology: The earliest toothless hominin skull

Nature

Volumn 434, Issue 7034, 2005, Pages 717-718

  Lordkipanidze, David ^a   Vekua, Abesalom ^a,b   Ferring, Reid ^c   Rightmire, G Philip ^d   Agusti, Jordi ^e   Kiladze, Gocha ^a   Mouskhelishvili, Alexander ^a   Nioradze, Medea ^f   Ponce De León, Marcia S ^g   Tappen, Martha ^h   Zollikofer, Christoph P E ^g  

^a Georgian National Museum   (Georgia)

^b Institute of Palaeobiology   (Georgia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS   (United States)

^d BINGHAMTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e INSTITUT CATALÀ DE PALEONTOLOGIA MIQUEL CRUSAFONT   (Spain)

^f Georgian Archaeological Centre   (Georgia)

^g UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^h UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HOMINID; SKULL;

ANTHROPOLOGY; ARCHEOLOGY; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE ANATOMY; EVOLUTION; FOSSIL; HOMINID; MASTICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKULL; TOOTH; ANIMAL; GEORGIA (REPUBLIC); HISTOLOGY; HISTORY; MANDIBLE; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PERIODONTAL DISEASE; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANIMALS; FOSSILS; GEORGIA (REPUBLIC); HISTORY, ANCIENT; HOMINIDAE; MANDIBLE; MASTICATION; SKULL; TOOTH; TOOTH LOSS;

EID: 20244366081     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/434717b     Document Type: Article

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