An early Australopithecus afarensis postcranium from Woranso-Mille, Ethiopia

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 107, Issue 27, 2010, Pages 12121-12126

  Haile Selassie, Yohannes ^a,b,c   Latimer, Bruce M ^a,b,c   Alene, Mulugeta ^d   Deino, Alan L ^e   Gibert, Luis ^e   Melillo, Stephanie M ^f   Saylor, Beverly Z ^g   Scott, Gary R ^e   Lovejoy, C Owen ^a,h  

^a CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY   (United States)

^b Department of Anthropology ^*  (United States)

^c Institute for the Science of Origins   (United States)

^d ADDIS ABABA UNIVERSITY   (Ethiopia)

^e BERKELEY GEOCHRONOLOGY CENTER   (United States)

^f STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^g CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^h KENT STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bipedality; Hominid; Human evolution; Thorax; Upright walking

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOIDEA; ARTICLE; AUSTRALOPITHECUS AFARENSIS; BODY SIZE; BONE STRUCTURE; CHIMPANZEE; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; ETHIOPIA; HINDLIMB; HUMAN; LIMB; LOCOMOTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCAPULA; SKELETAL DIMORPHISM; SKULL; STRATIGRAPHY; TAXONOMY; THORAX; X RAY ANALYSIS;

ACETABULUM; ANIMALS; ETHIOPIA; EVOLUTION; FEMUR HEAD; FOSSILS; GEOLOGY; HOMINIDAE; LOCOMOTION; PALEONTOLOGY; SKULL; TIBIA; TIME FACTORS;

AUSTRALOPITHECUS; AUSTRALOPITHECUS AFARENSIS; HOMINIDAE;

EID: 77955433245     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1004527107     Document Type: Article

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