Variation in enamel thickness within the genus Homo

Journal of Human Evolution

Volumn 62, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 395-411

  Smith, Tanya M ^a,b   Olejniczak, Anthony J ^b   Zermeno, John P ^a   Tafforeau, Paul ^c   Skinner, Matthew M ^b   Hoffmann, Almut ^d   Radovčić, Jakov ^e   Toussaint, Michel ^f   Kruszynski, Robert ^g   Menter, Colin ^h   Moggi Cecchi, Jacopo ⁱ   Glasmacher, Ulrich A ^j   Kullmer, Ottmar ^k   Schrenk, Friedemann ^l   Stringer, Chris ^g   Hublin, Jean Jacques ^b  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR EVOLUTIONARY ANTHROPOLOGY   (Germany)

^c EUROPEAN SYNCHROTRON RADIATION FACILITY   (France)

^d Museum fur Vor und Fruhgeschichte   (Germany)

^e CROATIAN NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUM   (Croatia)

^f Service Public de Wallonie   (Belgium)

^g DEPARTMENT OF LIFE SCIENCES   (United Kingdom)

^h UNIVERSITY OF JOHANNESBURG   (South Africa)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

^j UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^k SENCKENBERG RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Germany)

^l GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

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Author keywords

Archaic Homo; Dental morphology; Early Homo; Hominin tooth structure; Human evolution; Neanderthal

Indexed keywords

ENAMEL; FOSSIL RECORD; HUMAN EVOLUTION; MORPHOLOGY; NEANDERTHAL; TOMOGRAPHY;

ASIA; SOUTH AFRICA;

HOMO SAPIENS; HOMO SAPIENS NEANDERTHALENSIS; PARANTHROPUS;

EID: 84858071926     PISSN: 00472484     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhevol.2011.12.004     Document Type: Article

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