Additional Evidence for Morpho-Dimensional Tooth Crown Variation in a New Indonesian H. erectus Sample from the Sangiran Dome (Central Java)

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 7, 2013, Pages

  Zanolli, Clément ^a,b  

^a ABDUS SALAM INTERNATIONAL CENTRE FOR THEORETICAL PHYSICS   (Italy)

^b MUSÉUM NATIONAL D'HISTOIRE NATURELLE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANATOMICAL VARIATION; ARTICLE; DENTAL CUSP; FOSSIL HUMAN; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INCISOR; INDONESIA; MIDDLE PLEISTOCENE; MOLAR TOOTH; PREMOLAR TOOTH; TOOTH CROWN;

FOSSILS; GEOGRAPHY; HUMANS; INDONESIA; PALEODONTOLOGY; TOOTH CROWN;

EID: 84879765922     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0067233     Document Type: Article

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