Tooth Chipping as a Tool to Reconstruct Diets of Great Apes (Pongo, Gorilla, Pan)

International Journal of Primatology

Volumn 33, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 661-672

  Constantino, Paul J ^a   Markham, Katherine ^b   Lucas, Peter W ^c  

^a MARSHALL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b THE GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c KUWAIT UNIVERSITY   (Kuwait)

Author keywords

Diet; Evolution; Fallback foods; Fracture; Tooth morphology

Indexed keywords

DIET; ENAMEL; HOMINID; MORPHOLOGY; TOOL USE;

HOMINIDAE; PONGO; PONGO PYGMAEUS; PRIMATES;

EID: 84861798968     PISSN: 01640291     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10764-012-9595-2     Document Type: Article

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