Neither chimpanzee nor human, Ardipithecus reveals the surprising ancestry of both

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

Volumn 112, Issue 16, 2015, Pages 4877-4884

  White, Tim D ^a   Lovejoy, C Owen ^b   Asfaw, Berhane ^c   Carlson, Joshua P ^a   Suwa, Gen ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b KENT STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Rift Valley Research Service Addis Ababa   (Ethiopia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Australopithecus; Ethiopia; Hominid; Human evolution

Indexed keywords

ARDIPITHECUS; AUSTRALOPITHECUS; HOMINIDAE; PAN;

ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; ANIMAL; ECOSYSTEM; EVOLUTION; FOSSIL; HOMINID; HUMAN; LOCOMOTION; PAN TROGLODYTES; PHYSIOLOGY; TOOTH;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; ECOSYSTEM; FOSSILS; HOMINIDAE; HUMANS; LOCOMOTION; PAN TROGLODYTES; TOOTH;

EID: 84928245680     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1403659111     Document Type: Review

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