Comment: Low dental caries rate in Neandertals: The result of diet or the oral flora composition?

HOMO- Journal of Comparative Human Biology

Volumn 63, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 110-113

  Sołtysiak, Arkadiusz ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WARSAW   (Poland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DENTAL CARIES; DIET; EUROPE; HOMO NEANDERTHALENSIS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; MIDDLE EAST; MOUTH; STREPTOCOCCUS MUTANS;

ANIMALS; DENTAL CARIES; DENTAL CARIES SUSCEPTIBILITY; DIET; EUROPE; MIDDLE EAST; MOUTH; NEANDERTHALS; STREPTOCOCCUS MUTANS;

EID: 84860998602     PISSN: 0018442X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jchb.2012.02.001     Document Type: Article

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