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Science 22 November 1963:
Vol. 142. no. 3595, p. 1060
DOI: 10.1126/science.142.3595.1060
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Molar Size Sequences and Fossil Taxonomy

Arthur B. Lewis 1 and Rose S. Kerewsky 1

1 The Fels Research Institute, Yellow Springs, Ohio

Although relative molar size has been considered a major taxonomic criterion, separating the Australopithecines and some erectus fossils from sapiens man, the Me > Ml, or " fossil" size sequence is found in 33 percent of Ohio whites and Pima Indians, yet is not necessarily the major sequence in the level and below ( 9; 10). Stanley M. Garn.


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