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SUBMITTER: Cerling TE
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3111323 | biostudies-literature | 2011 Jun
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Cerling Thure E TE Mbua Emma E Kirera Francis M FM Manthi Fredrick Kyalo FK Grine Frederick E FE Leakey Meave G MG Sponheimer Matt M Uno Kevin T KT
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20110502 23
The East African hominin Paranthropus boisei was characterized by a suite of craniodental features that have been widely interpreted as adaptations to a diet that consisted of hard objects that required powerful peak masticatory loads. These morphological adaptations represent the culmination of an evolutionary trend that began in earlier taxa such as Australopithecus afarensis, and presumably facilitated utilization of open habitats in the Plio-Pleistocene. Here, we use stable isotopes to show ...[more]