Plio-pleistocene hominid limb proportions: Evolutionary reversals or estimation errors?

Current Anthropology

Volumn 46, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 575-588

  Reno, Philip L ^a   DeGusta, David ^b   Serrat, Maria A ^a   Meindl, Richard S ^a   White, Tim D ^c   Eckhardt, Robert B ^d   Kuperavage, Adam J ^d   Galik, Karol ^e   Lovejoy, C Owen ^a  

^a KENT STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e ALLEGHENY GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

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EID: 33748684205     PISSN: 00113204     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/431528     Document Type: Review

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