What do we know and not know about dental microwear and diet?

Evolution Of The Human Diet: The Known, the Unknown, and the Unknowable

Volumn , Issue , 2023, Pages 106-131

  Teaford, Mark F ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

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Appreciate; Constantly; Hindlimbs; Hypotheses; Paleontologists

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EID: 85201603688     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780195183474.003.0007     Document Type: Chapter

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