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Communicated by Richard G. Klein, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, May 8, 2007 (received for review January 10, 2007)
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- Published in issue June 26, 2007.
- Published first June 19, 2007.
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- Changzhu Jin *,
- Russell L. Ciochon † , ‡ ,
- Wei Dong * , § ,
- Robert M. Hunt, Jr ¶ ,
- Jinyi Liu *,
- Marc Jaeger ‖ , **, and
- Qizhi Zhu ††
- *Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100044, China;
- †Department of Anthropology, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA 52242-1322;
- §State Key Laboratory of Pattern Recognition, Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100080, China;
- ¶Department of Geosciences and State Museum, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE 68588-0514;
- ‖Joint Sino–French Laboratory in Informatics, Automation, and Applied Mathematics (LIAMA), Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100080, China;
- **Laboratory of Botany and Bioinformatics of Plant Architecture (AMAP), Agricultural Research Centre for International Development (CIRAD), TA40/PS2, 34398 Montpellier Cedex 05, France; and
- ††Renmin Hospital, Peking University, Beijing 100044, China
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Communicated by Richard G. Klein, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, May 8, 2007 (received for review January 10, 2007)
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- ‡To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: russell-ciochon{at}uiowa.edu
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Author contributions: C.J., R.L.C., W.D., and R.M.H. designed research; C.J., R.L.C., W.D., R.M.H., J.L., and M.J. performed research; M.J. and Q.Z. contributed new reagents/analytic tools; R.L.C., W.D., and R.M.H. analyzed data; and R.L.C., W.D., and R.M.H. wrote the paper.
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The authors declare no conflict of interest.
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This article contains supporting information online at www.pnas.org/cgi/content/full/0704198104/DC1.
- Abbreviations:
- IVPP,
- Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, Beijing, China;
- AMNH,
- American Museum of Natural History, New York, NY (Mammalogy).
- © 2007 by The National Academy of Sciences of the USA
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