The facial skeleton of the chimpanzee-human last common ancestor

Journal of Anatomy

Volumn 212, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 469-485

  Cobb, Samuel N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HULL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Australopithecus; Canine honing; Cranio facial; Hominid; Masticatory; Megadontia; Miocene; Pliocene

Indexed keywords

CHIMPANZEE; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRANIOFACIAL MORPHOLOGY; DENTITION; EVOLUTION; FACIAL BONE; FACIES; FEMALE; FOSSIL HOMININ; HOMOPLASY; HUMAN; HYPOTHESIS; LAST COMMON ANCESTOR; MALE; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNATHIA; TAXONOMY; ANIMAL; HISTOLOGY; HOMINID; PAN TROGLODYTES; PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; REVIEW;

ARDIPITHECUS; ARDIPITHECUS RAMIDUS; AUSTRALOPITHECUS; HOMINIDAE; ORRORIN TUGENENSIS; PAN; SAHELANTHROPUS TCHADENSIS;

ANIMALS; ANTHROPOLOGY, PHYSICAL; DENTITION; EVOLUTION; FACIAL BONES; HOMINIDAE; HUMANS; PAN TROGLODYTES; PHYSIOLOGY, COMPARATIVE;

EID: 45849086598     PISSN: 00218782     EISSN: 14697580     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-7580.2008.00866.x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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