New species from Ethiopia further expands Middle Pliocene hominin diversity

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• Publication year

  2015

• Venue

  Nature

• Publication date

  2015-05-27

• Fields of study

  Biology, Geography, Medicine

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  DOI 10.1038/nature14448PMID 26017448
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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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