Response to comment on the paleobiology and classification of ardipithecus ramidus

Science

Volumn 328, Issue 5982, 2010, Pages

  White, Tim D ^a   Suwa, Gen ^b   Owen Lovejoy, C ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^c KENT STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARDIPITHECUS RAMIDUS; BIOLOGY; DENTAL PRACTICE; EVOLUTION; FOSSIL ANIMAL; HOMINID; NONHUMAN; NOTE; PALEOLITHIC; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKULL;

ARDIPITHECUS; ARDIPITHECUS RAMIDUS; HOMINIDAE;

EID: 77952985512     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: 10959203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1185462     Document Type: Note

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11. The responding authors note that the comment by Sarmiento (1) was directed at multiple papers, each with a different authorship, published in the 2 October 2009 issue of Science. Due to space and time allowances, this smaller set of authors has taken responsibility for the response, while at the same time acknowledging the wider authorship of our original papers under comment here.