Possible change in dental morphology in Gigantopithecus blacki just prior to its extinction: evidence from the upper premolar enamel-dentine junction

J Hum Evol. 2014 Oct:75:166-71. doi: 10.1016/j.jhevol.2014.06.010. Epub 2014 Jul 23.

¹ Key Laboratory of Vertebrate Evolution and Human Origin of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100044, China. Electronic address: zhangyingqi@ivpp.ac.cn.
² Division of Human Evolution, Department of Anthropology, National Museum of Nature and Science, Tsukuba 305-0005, Japan.
³ Key Laboratory of Vertebrate Evolution and Human Origin of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100044, China.
⁴ Guangxi Museum of Nationalities, Nanning 530021, China.
⁵ Center for the Study of Human Origins, Department of Anthropology, New York University, New York, NY 10003, USA.

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Keywords: Fossil ape; Micro CT; Morphological change; Pleistocene; Southern China.

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