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- Title
Brickbats for fossil hunter who claims skull has false tooth.
- Authors
Dalton, Rex
- Abstract
The article focuses on Toumaï, the fossil hominid and man's oldest known ancestor. The integrity of the 7-million-year-old specimen came under attack in April, when Alain Beauvilain, a geographer, published an article in the South African Journal of Science, claiming that Toumaï's jaw had a molar glued in the wrong place to round out his set of teeth. This article was criticized by more than two dozen of the world's leading palaeoanthropologists who wrote to the journal saying that the third molar on the right of Toumaï's jaw is indeed a right molar, not a left one as the critics claim.
- Subjects
FOSSILS; HOMINIDS; BEAUVILAIN, Alain; MOLARS; TEETH; PALEOANTHROPOLOGISTS
- Publication
Nature, 2004, Vol 430, Issue 7003, p956
- ISSN
0028-0836
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1038/430956a