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  1. Department of Anthropology, University of Winnipeg, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada

    Mirjana Roksandic, Predrag Radović, Joshua Lindal & Ivan Roksandic

  2. Department of Anthropology, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada

    Mirjana Roksandic & Joshua Lindal

  3. Department of Anthropology, University of Colorado Denver, Denver, CO, USA

    Charles Musiba

  4. Department of Archaeology, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Belgrade, Belgrade, Serbia

    Predrag Radović

  5. National Museum Kraljevo, Kraljevo, Serbia

    Predrag Radović

  6. Key Laboratory of Vertebrate Evolution and Human Origins, Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

    Xiu-Jie Wu

  7. Ria Olivier Herbarium, Department of Botany, Nelson Mandela University, Gqeberha, South Africa

    Estrela Figueiredo & Gideon F. Smith

  8. Department of Anthropology, University of Hawai’i at Manoa, Honolulu, HI, USA

    Christopher J. Bae

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Roksandic, M., Musiba, C., Radović, P. et al. Change in biological nomenclature is overdue and possible. Nat Ecol Evol 7, 1166–1167 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-023-02104-x

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