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Hard plant tissues do not contribute meaningfully to dental microwear: evolutionary implications

Reconstructing diet is critical to understanding hominin adaptations. Isotopic and functional morphological analyses of early hominins are compatible with consumption of hard foods, such as mechanically-protected seeds, but dental microwear analyses are not. The protective shells surrounding seeds a...

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Autores principales: van Casteren, Adam, Strait, David S., Swain, Michael V., Michael, Shaji, Thai, Lidia A., Philip, Swapna M., Saji, Sreeja, Al-Fadhalah, Khaled, Almusallam, Abdulwahab S., Shekeban, Ali, McGraw, W. Scott, Kane, Erin E., Wright, Barth W., Lucas, Peter W.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Nature Publishing Group UK 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6969033/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31953510
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-019-57403-w