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Comment
. 2019 Oct 8;116(41):20259-20260.
doi: 10.1073/pnas.1911658116. Epub 2019 Sep 17.

More data needed for claims about the earliest Oldowan artifacts

Yonatan Sahle  1 , Tegenu Gossa  2
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More data needed for claims about the earliest Oldowan artifacts

Yonatan Sahle et al. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. .
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