Variability in premolar and molar root number in a modern population of pan troglodytes verus

Anatomical Record

Volumn 297, Issue 10, 2014, Pages 1927-1934

  Emonet, Edouard Georges ^a,b   Kullmer, Ottmar ^a,b  

^a SENCKENBERG RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Germany)

^b Senckenberg Centre for Human Evolution and Palaeoecology   (Germany)

Author keywords

Chimpanzee; Dental roots; Hominin; Hominoid; Molars; Pan troglodytes; Premolars; Teeth

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; APE; ARTICLE; DECIDUOUS TOOTH; FEMALE; LIBERIA; MALE; MANDIBLE; MAXILLA; MOLAR TOOTH; MORPHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PAN TROGLODYTES; PREMOLAR TOOTH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TOOTH ROOT; TOOTH SIZE; ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; ANIMAL; INDIVIDUALITY;

HOMINOIDEA; PAN; PAN TROGLODYTES; PAN TROGLODYTES VERUS;

ANIMALS; FEMALE; INDIVIDUALITY; LIBERIA; MALE; MOLAR; PAN TROGLODYTES; TOOTH ROOT;

EID: 84907881592     PISSN: 19328486     EISSN: 19328494     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ar.22959     Document Type: Article

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