New footprints from Laetoli (Tanzania) provide evidence for marked body size variation in early hominins

Laetoli is a well-known palaeontological locality in northern Tanzania whose outstanding record includes the earliest hominin footprints in the world (3.66 million years old), discovered in 1978 at Site G and attributed to Australopithecus afarensis. Here, we report hominin tracks unearthed in the n...

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Autores principales: Masao, Fidelis T, Ichumbaki, Elgidius B, Cherin, Marco, Barili, Angelo, Boschian, Giovanni, Iurino, Dawid A, Menconero, Sofia, Moggi-Cecchi, Jacopo, Manzi, Giorgio
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: eLife Sciences Publications, Ltd 2016
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Genomics and Evolutionary Biology
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5156529/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27964778
http://dx.doi.org/10.7554/eLife.19568

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5156529/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27964778
http://dx.doi.org/10.7554/eLife.19568

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