Implications of early hominid labyrinthine morphology for evolution of human bipedal locomotion

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• Publication year

  1994

• Venue

  Nature

• Publication date

  1994-06-23

• Fields of study

  Biology, Medicine

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  DOI 10.1038/369645A0PMID 8208290
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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