Reply to Fontes-Villalba et al.: On a reluctance to conjecture about animal food consumption

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

Volumn 110, Issue 43, 2013, Pages

  Sponheimer, Matt ^a   Alemseged, Zeresenay ^b   Cerling, Thure E ^c   Grine, Frederick E ^d   Kimbel, William H ^e   Leakey, Meave G ^d,f   Lee Thorp, Julia A ^g   Manthi, Fredrick Kyalo ^h   Reed, Kaye E ^e   Wood, Bernard A ⁱ   Wynn, Jonathan G ^j  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

^d STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f Turkana Basin Institute   (Kenya)

^g UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^h INSTITUTE OF PRIMATE RESEARCH   (Kenya)

ⁱ THE GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^j UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON;

ANIMAL FOOD; DIET; ENAMEL; FOOD INTAKE; HUMAN; LETTER; NONHUMAN; PALEOANTHROPOLOGY; PLANT; PLEISTOCENE; PLIOCENE; PRIMATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANIMALS; CARBON ISOTOPES; DENTAL ENAMEL; DIET; HOMINIDAE; HUMANS; RADIOMETRIC DATING;

EID: 84886434868     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1314368110     Document Type: Letter

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