## Abstract Most living and fossil sea cows of the subfamily Dugonginae (Dugongidae, Sirenia, Mammalia) are characterized by large upper incisor tusks, which are thought to play an important role (at least primitively) in feeding on seagrass rhizomes. Testing this hypothesis is difficult, because t
Faults in the testing and use of gravitational test working hypotheses
β Scribed by V. P. Dedov; B. P. Filimonov
- Publisher
- Springer US
- Year
- 2006
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 193 KB
- Volume
- 49
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0543-1972
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