Dental morphology and the phylogenetic "place" of Australopithecus sediba

Science

Volumn 340, Issue 6129, 2013, Pages 1233062-

  Irish, Joel D ^a   Guatelli Steinberg, Debbie ^b   Legge, Scott S ^c   De Ruiter, Darryl J ^d,e   Berger, Lee R ^e  

^a LIVERPOOL JOHN MOORES UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c MACALESTER COLLEGE   (United States)

^d TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DENTITION; HOMINID; MORPHOLOGY; PHYLOGENETICS; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; SAMPLING; SKELETAL REMAINS; FOSSIL RECORD; SKELETON;

ARTICLE; AUSTRALOPITHECUS SEDIBA; CLADISTICS; EVOLUTION; FOSSIL HOMININ; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC TRAIT; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GORILLA; HOMINID; MOLAR TOOTH; NONHUMAN; PARSIMONY ANALYSIS; PHYLOGENY; PREMOLAR TOOTH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; TOOTH; MONOPHYLY;

EAST AFRICA;

AUSTRALOPITHECUS; HOMO ERECTUS;

EID: 84876301532     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: 10959203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1233062     Document Type: Article

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