Divorcing Hominins from the Stegodon-Ailuropoda Fauna: New Views on the Antiquity of Hominins in Asia

Vertebrate Paleobiology and Paleoanthropology

Volumn , Issue 9789048190355, 2010, Pages 111-126

  Ciochon, Russell L ^a  

^a University of Iowa   (United States)

Author keywords

Gigantopithecus; Homoerectus; Jianshi; Longgupo; Lufengpithecus; Mohui; Nihewan; Sangiran; Zhoukoudian; Hemanthropus

Indexed keywords

EID: 85045853346     PISSN: 18779077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-90-481-9036-2_8     Document Type: Chapter

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