Early hominin auditory ossicles from South Africa

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 110, Issue 22, 2013, Pages 8847-8851

  Quam, Rolf M ^a,b,c   De Ruiter, Darryl J ^d,e   Masali, Melchiorre ^f   Arsuaga, Juan Luis ^b,g   Martínez, Ignacio ^b,h   Moggi Cecchi, Jacopo ^i,j  

^a BINGHAMTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Forest Research Institute   (Spain)

^c DIVISION OF INVERTEBRATE ZOOLOGY   (United States)

^d TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

^f UNIVERSITY OF TURIN   (Italy)

^g UNIVERSIDAD COMPLUTENSE DE MADRID   (Spain)

^h UNIVERSITY OF ALCALÁ   (Spain)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

^j UNIVERSITY OF JOHANNESBURG   (South Africa)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASIAN; AUDITORY OSSICLE; AUSTRALOPITHECUS AFRICANUS; EXTERNAL AUDITORY CANAL; FOSSIL HOMININ; HUMAN; INCUS; INNER EAR; MALLEUS; MIDDLE EAR; MORPHOLOGY; NEGRO; PARANTHROPUS ROBUSTUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOUTH AFRICA; STAPES; STERNUM;

ANATOMY, COMPARATIVE; ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; BODY WEIGHTS AND MEASURES; EAR OSSICLES; FOSSILS; HOMINIDAE; SOUTH AFRICA; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

AUSTRALOPITHECUS AFRICANUS; HOMINIDAE; PARANTHROPUS ROBUSTUS;

EID: 84878466009     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1303375110     Document Type: Article

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