First early hominin from Central Africa (Ishango, Democratic Republic of Congo)

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Crevecoeur, Isabelle ^a   Skinner, Matthew M ^b,d   Bailey, Shara E ^c,d   Gunz, Philipp ^d   Bortoluzzi, Silvia ^e   Brooks, Alison S ^f   Burlet, Christian ^g   Cornelissen, Els ^h   De Clerck, Nora ⁱ   Maureille, Bruno ^a   Semal, Patrick ^j   Vanbrabant, Yves ^g   Wood, Bernard ^f  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE BORDEAUX   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR EVOLUTIONARY ANTHROPOLOGY   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

^f THE GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^g ROYAL BELGIAN INSTITUTE OF NATURAL SCIENCES   (Belgium)

^h ROYAL MUSEUM FOR CENTRAL AFRICA   (Belgium)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

^j ROYAL BELGIAN INSTITUTE OF NATURAL SCIENCES   (Belgium)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARCHEOLOGY; ARTICLE; AUSTRALOPITHECUS; CENTRAL AFRICA; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONGO; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENTIN; ENAMEL; FOSSIL HOMININ; FOSSIL PRIMATE; HOMINID; HOMO; MOLAR TOOTH; MORPHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PLEISTOCENE; PREHISTORIC PERIOD;

ANIMALS; ARCHAEOLOGY; DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF THE CONGO; FOSSILS; GEOGRAPHY; HOMINIDAE;

EID: 84897556138     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0084652     Document Type: Article

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