New geological and palaeontological age constraint for the gorilla-human lineage split

Nature

Volumn 530, Issue 7589, 2016, Pages 215-218

  Katoh, Shigehiro ^a   Beyene, Yonas ^b,c   Itaya, Tetsumaru ^d   Hyodo, Hironobu ^d   Hyodo, Masayuki ^e   Yagi, Koshi ^f   Gouzu, Chitaro ^f   WoldeGabriel, Giday ^g   Hart, William K ^h   Ambrose, Stanley H ⁱ   Nakaya, Hideo ^j   Bernor, Raymond L ^k   Boisserie, Jean Renaud ^c,l   Bibi, Faysal ^m   Saegusa, Haruo ⁿ   Sasaki, Tomohiko ^o   Sano, Katsuhiro ^o   Asfaw, Berhane ^p   Suwa, Gen ^o  

^a MUSEUM OF NATURE AND HUMAN ACTIVITIES   (Japan)

^b Association for Conservation of Culture Awassa   (Ethiopia)

^c Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique Unité de Service et de Recherche 3137   (Ethiopia)

^d OKAYAMA UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE   (Japan)

^e KOBE UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^f Hiruzen Research Institute of Geology and Chronology   (Japan)

^g LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^h MIAMI UNIVERSITY   (United States)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^j KAGOSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^k HOWARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^l CNRS   (France)

^m LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE FOR EVOLUTION AND BIODIVERSITY SCIENCE   (Germany)

ⁿ UNIVERSITY OF HYOGO   (Japan)

^o UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^p Rift Valley Research Service Addis Ababa   (Ethiopia)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AFROTROPICAL REGION; CHRONOLOGY; DIVERGENCE; EVOLUTION; FOSSIL ASSEMBLAGE; MIOCENE; PALEOBIOLOGY; PALEONTOLOGY; PRIMATE;

AFRICA SOUTH OF THE SAHARA; APE; ARTICLE; CHORORAPITHECUS ABYSSINICUS; CLADISTICS; FOSSIL; GENETIC LINKAGE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GEOCHEMICAL ANALYSIS; GEOLOGICAL TIME; GORILLA HUMAN LINEAGE SPLIT; HIPPOPOTAMIDAE; HUMAN; MUTATION RATE; NONHUMAN; PALEONTOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STRATIGRAPHY; UPPER MIOCENE; ANIMAL; CHEMISTRY; ETHIOPIA; GENETICS; GORILLA; PHYLOGENY; RADIOMETRIC DATING; SEDIMENT; TIME;

EURASIA; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA;

HOMINIDAE; MAMMALIA;

ANIMALS; ETHIOPIA; FOSSILS; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; GORILLA GORILLA; HUMANS; MUTATION RATE; PHYLOGENY; RADIOMETRIC DATING; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84958093022     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature16510     Document Type: Article

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