Adaptation to hard-object feeding in sea otters and hominins.

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• Publication year

  2011

• Venue

  Journal of Human Evolution

• Publication date

  2011-07-01

• Fields of study

  Biology, Geology, Medicine, Environmental Science

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  DOI 10.1016/j.jhevol.2011.02.009PMID 21474163
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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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