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Putting flesh on to hominin bones

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 August 2014

Susannah K.S. Thorpe ,
Juliet M. McClymont  and
Robin H. Crompton
Susannah K.S. Thorpe
Affiliation:
1Locomotor Ecology and Biomechanics Lab, School of Biosciences, University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham B15 2TT, UK (Author for correspondence; Email: s.k.thorpe@bham.ac.uk)
Juliet M. McClymont
Affiliation:
2Department of Musculoskeletal Biology, Institute of Aging and Chronic Disease, University of Liverpool, Ashton Street, Liverpool L69 3GE, UK
Robin H. Crompton
Affiliation:
2Department of Musculoskeletal Biology, Institute of Aging and Chronic Disease, University of Liverpool, Ashton Street, Liverpool L69 3GE, UK
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Antiquity , Volume 88 , Issue 341 , September 2014 , pp. 924 - 926
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