The Biogeographic Implications of Early Hominin Phylogeny

Vertebrate Paleobiology and Paleoanthropology

Volumn , Issue 9789400759183, 2013, Pages 183-191

  Strait, David S ^a  

^a STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

Ardipithecus; Australopithecus; Biogeography; Cladistics; Dispersal; Hominins; Homo; Orrorin; Paranthropus; Parsimony; Phylogeny; Praeanthropus; Sahelanthropus

Indexed keywords

EID: 84937833132     PISSN: 18779077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-94-007-5919-0_12     Document Type: Chapter

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