Mosaic morphology in the thorax of Australopithecus sediba

Science

Volumn 340, Issue 6129, 2013, Pages 1234598-

  Schmid, Peter ^a,b   Churchill, Steven E ^b,c   Nalla, Shahed ^b,d   Weissen, Eveline ^a   Carlson, Kristian J ^b,e   De Ruiter, Darryl J ^b,f   Berger, Lee R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

^c DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF JOHANNESBURG   (South Africa)

^e INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HOMINID; LOCOMOTION; MORPHOLOGY; FOSSIL; SHAPE; WALKING;

APE; ARTICLE; AUSTRALOPITHECUS SEDIBA; FOSSIL HOMININ; MORPHOLOGY; MOSAICISM; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIB; RUNNING; THORAX; WALKING; ACCURACY; BREATHING; FOSSIL HOMINID;

AUSTRALOPITHECUS;

EID: 84876322842     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: 10959203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1234598     Document Type: Article

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