Response to comment on the paleoenvironment of ardipithecus ramidus

Science

Volumn 328, Issue 5982, 2010, Pages

  White, Tim D ^a   Ambrose, Stanley H ^b   Suwa, Gen ^c   Woldegabriel, Giday ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^d LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARDIPITHECUS RAMIDUS; FOREST; FOSSIL; FOSSIL ANIMAL; GEOCHEMISTRY; GEOLOGY; HABITAT; LANDSCAPE; NONHUMAN; NOTE; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PLIOCENE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIPARIAN ECOSYSTEM; RIPARIAN SPECIES; SPECIES;

ARDIPITHECUS RAMIDUS;

EID: 77953007358     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: 10959203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1185466     Document Type: Note

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23. The responding authors note that the comment by Cerling et al. (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.