River-margin habitat of Ardipithecus ramidus at Aramis, Ethiopia 4.4 million years ago

Nature Communications

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2011, Pages

  Gani, M Royhan ^a   Gani, Nahid D ^a,b  

^a University of New Orleans   (United States)

^b Tulane University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON; OXYGEN;

ARDIPITHECUS RAMIDUS; ARTICLE; ETHIOPIA; EVOLUTION; FOREST; HABITAT; HUMAN; PALEOANTHROPOLOGY; RIVER; SAVANNA; SEDIMENTOLOGY; VEGETATION; ANIMAL; BONE; CHEMISTRY; DENTITION; ECOSYSTEM; FOSSIL; HISTOLOGY; HOMINID; PHYSIOLOGY; POACEAE; TREE;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; BONE AND BONES; CARBON ISOTOPES; DENTITION; ECOSYSTEM; ETHIOPIA; FOSSILS; HOMINIDAE; HUMANS; OXYGEN ISOTOPES; POACEAE; RIVERS; TREES;

EID: 84455208926     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms1610     Document Type: Article

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