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Ignoring Ardipithecus in an origins scenario for bipedality is…lame

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 August 2014

Tim D. White
Affiliation:
1Human Evolution Research Center and Department of Integrative Biology, HERC/Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, 3101 Valley Life Sciences Building, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA
C. Owen Lovejoy
Affiliation:
2Department of Anthropology, School of Biomedical Sciences, Kent State University, Kent, OH 44240–0001, USA
Gen Suwa
Affiliation:
3The University Museum, University of Tokyo, Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-0033, Japan

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Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd 2014

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