Biology and body size in human evolution: Statistical inference misapplied

Current Anthropology

Volumn 37, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 451-481

  Smith, Richard J ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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DOI: 10.1086/204505     Document Type: Article

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