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Volume 155, Number 17 (April 24, 1999)

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Robust about-face

A researcher proposes that most of the weird facial traits of a species in the human evolutionary family known as robust australopithecus arose as developmental by-products of an unusual set of teeth.

References:

McCollum, M.A. 1999. The robust australopithecine face: A morphogenetic perspective. Science 284(April 9):301.

Sources:

Melanie A. McCollum
Case Western Reserve University
Department of Anatomy
10900 Euclid Avenue
Cleveland, OH 44106

From Science News, Vol. 155, No. 17, April 24, 1999, p. 267. Copyright © 1999, Science Service.

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