Australopithecus sediba from Malapa, South Africa

Vertebrate Paleobiology and Paleoanthropology

Volumn , Issue 9789400759183, 2013, Pages 147-160

  de Ruiter, Darryl J ^a,b   Churchill, Steven E ^b,c   Berger, Lee R ^b  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

^c DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Homo; Skeletal morphology; Taxonomy

Indexed keywords

EID: 84937031257     PISSN: 18779077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-94-007-5919-0_9     Document Type: Chapter

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