Niche partitioning in sympatric Gorilla and Pan from cameroon: Implications for life history strategies and for reconstructing the evolution of hominin life history

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 7, 2014, Pages

  Macho, Gabriele A ^a   Lee Thorp, Julia A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON 13; NITROGEN 15; CARBON; NITROGEN;

ADULT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; BRAIN SIZE; CAMEROON; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIET; FEMALE; GORILLA; HAIR ANALYSIS; INFANT; LIFE HISTORY; MALE; MOLAR TOOTH; NONHUMAN; PAN TROGLODYTES; SPECIES HABITAT; SYMPATRY; TOOTH DEVELOPMENT; TOOTH ERUPTION; ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; ANIMAL; BRAIN; ECOLOGY; ECOSYSTEM; EVOLUTION; GEOGRAPHY; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HAIR; HOMINID; LIFE CYCLE STAGE; METABOLISM; PATHOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; BRAIN; CAMEROON; CARBON ISOTOPES; DIET; ECOLOGY; ECOSYSTEM; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHY; GORILLA GORILLA; HAIR; HOMINIDAE; LIFE CYCLE STAGES; MALE; MOLAR; NITROGEN ISOTOPES; PAN TROGLODYTES; TOOTH CALCIFICATION; TOOTH ERUPTION;

EID: 84904595227     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0102794     Document Type: Article

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