Earliest Porotic Hyperostosis on a 1.5-Million-Year-Old Hominin, Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania

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Volumn 7, Issue 10, 2012, Pages

  Domínguez Rodrigo, Manuel ^a,b   Pickering, Travis Rayne ^c,d,e   Diez Martín, Fernando ^f   Mabulla, Audax ^g   Musiba, Charles ^h   Trancho, Gonzalo ^b   Baquedano, Enrique ^a,i   Bunn, Henry T ^c   Barboni, Doris ^j   Santonja, Manuel ^k   Uribelarrea, David ^b   Ashley, Gail M ^l   Martínez Ávila, María del Sol ^b   Barba, Rebeca ^a   Gidna, Agness ^a   Yravedra, José ^b   Arriaza, Carmen ^a,i  

^a IDEA Instituto de Evolución en África   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSIDAD COMPLUTENSE DE MADRID   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

^e Transvaal Museum   (South Africa)

^f UNIVERSITY OF VALLADOLID   (Spain)

^g UNIVERSITY OF DAR ES SALAAM   (Tanzania)

^h UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

ⁱ Museo Arqueologico Regional   (Spain)

^j AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITY   (France)

^k CENTRO NACIONAL DE INVESTIGACIÓN SOBRE LA EVOLUCIÓN HUMANA CENIEH   (Spain)

^l RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; ANEMIA; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BREAST MILK; CHILD DEATH; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FOOD COMPOSITION; FOOD INTAKE; FOSSIL HOMININ; HOLOCENE; HYPEROSTOSIS; MALNUTRITION; MEAT; NONHUMAN; NUTRIENT CONTENT; NUTRITIONAL DEFICIENCY; PASSIVE IMMUNIZATION; PLEISTOCENE; SEDENTARY LIFESTYLE; TANZANIA; WEANING;

ANIMALS; FOSSILS; HOMINIDAE; HYPEROSTOSIS; TANZANIA;

ANIMALIA; UNGULATA;

EID: 84867045644     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0046414     Document Type: Article

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