Dental topography and human evolution with comments on the diets of Australopithecus africanus and Paranthropus

Vertebrate Paleobiology and Paleoanthropology

Volumn , Issue 9781402058448, 2007, Pages 321-343

  Ungar, P S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS   (United States)

Author keywords

Dental functional morphology; Early hominin dietary adaptations

Indexed keywords

EID: 85045119536     PISSN: 18779077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4020-5845-5_22     Document Type: Chapter

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