Seven Decades of East African Miocene Anthropoid Studies

  • Russell H. Tuttle
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Late Miocene Middle Miocene Physical Anthropology Miocene Locality Catarrhine Primate 
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  1. 1.Department of AnthropologyThe University of ChicagoChicagoUSA

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