Strontium isotope evidence for landscape use by early hominins

Nature

Volumn 474, Issue 7349, 2011, Pages 76-78

  Copeland, Sandi R ^a,b   Sponheimer, Matt ^b   De Ruiter, Darryl J ^c   Lee Thorp, Julia A ^d,e   Codron, Daryl ^f   Le Roux, Petrus J ^e   Grimes, Vaughan ^a,g   Richards, Michael P ^a,h  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR EVOLUTIONARY ANTHROPOLOGY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^c TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

^f UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^g MEMORIAL UNIVERSITY OF NEWFOUNDLAND   (Canada)

^h UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

STRONTIUM;

DOLOMITE; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; HOME RANGE; HOMINID; ISOTOPIC ANALYSIS; MORPHOLOGY; PHYLOGENETICS; SEXUAL DIMORPHISM; SOCIAL STRUCTURE; STRONTIUM ISOTOPE; TOOTH;

ARTICLE; AUSTRALOPITHECUS AFRICANUS; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; CHIMPANZEE; FEMALE; FOSSIL HOMININ; GORILLA; HUMAN; LAND USE; LANDSCAPE USE; MALE; NONHUMAN; PARANTHROPUS ROBUSTUS; PRIMATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOUTH AFRICA; TOOTH DEVELOPMENT;

ANIMALS; DEMOGRAPHY; DIET; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; FOSSILS; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; HOMINIDAE; MALE; SOUTH AFRICA; SPECTROMETRY, MASS, ELECTROSPRAY IONIZATION; STRONTIUM ISOTOPES; TOOTH;

SOUTH AFRICA;

ANIMALIA; AUSTRALOPITHECUS AFRICANUS; PAN; PARANTHROPUS ROBUSTUS;

EID: 79957966227     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature10149     Document Type: Article

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