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The Earliest Fossil Evidence for Sexual Dimorphism in Primates

The Earliest Fossil Evidence for Sexual Dimorphism in Primates

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The Earliest Fossil Evidence for Sexual Dimorphism in Primates

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The Earliest Fossil Evidence for Sexual Dimorphism in Primates

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Legacy CDMS: National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Journal title

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - PNAS, 1990-07, Vol.87 (13), p.5223-5226

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English

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Legacy CDMS: National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

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Recently obtained material of the early Eocene primate Notharctus venticolus, including two partial skulls from a single stratigraphic horizon, provides the geologically earliest evidence of sexual dimorphism in canine size and shape in primates and the only unequivocal evidence for such dimorphism in strepsirhines. By analogy with living platyrrhi...

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The Earliest Fossil Evidence for Sexual Dimorphism in Primates

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TN_cdi_pubmedcentral_primary_oai_pubmedcentral_nih_gov_54294

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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/TN_cdi_pubmedcentral_primary_oai_pubmedcentral_nih_gov_54294

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ISSN

0027-8424

E-ISSN

1091-6490

DOI

10.1073/pnas.87.13.5223

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