Patterns of tooth crown size and shape variation in great apes and humans and species recognition in the hominid fossil record

American Journal of Physical Anthropology

Volumn 125, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 303-319

  Scott, Jeremiah E ^a   Lockwood, Charles A ^a,b,c  

^a ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Dental variation; Hominidae; Homininae; Ponginae; Taxonomy

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOIDEA; APE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DENTITION; FEMALE; FOSSIL; GORILLA; HOMINID; HUMAN; MALE; MANDIBLE; NONHUMAN; PAN PANISCUS; PAN TROGLODYTES; PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY; SPECIES IDENTIFICATION; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TAXONOMY; TOOTH CROWN; TOOTH DEVELOPMENT;

ANIMALS; ANTHROPOLOGY, PHYSICAL; FOSSILS; HOMINIDAE; HUMANS; ODONTOMETRY; PHYLOGENY; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; TOOTH CROWN;

EID: 8844241422     PISSN: 00029483     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ajpa.10406     Document Type: Article

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