Chimpanzee subspecies and 'robust' australopithecine holotypes, in the context of comments by Darwin

South African Journal of Science

Volumn 105, Issue 11-12, 2009, Pages 463-464

  Thackeray, J F ^a   Prat, S ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

^b Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique   (France)

^c Transvaal Museum   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Australopithecus; Chimpanzee; Hominin taxonomy; Paranthropus; Pleistocene

Indexed keywords

ANATOMY; FOSSIL RECORD; MORPHOMETRY; PRIMATE; SUBSPECIES; TAXONOMY; TYPE SPECIMEN;

AFRICA;

AUSTRALOPITHECUS; HOMINIDAE; PAN; PAN PANISCUS; PAN TROGLODYTES; PAN TROGLODYTES SCHWEINFURTHII; PAN TROGLODYTES TROGLODYTES; PARANTHROPUS; PARANTHROPUS ROBUSTUS; PRIMATES;

EID: 75649111631     PISSN: 00382353     EISSN: 19967489     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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