Palaeoecology and hominoid palaeoenvironments

Biological Reviews

Volumn 71, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 257-300

  Andrews, Peter ^a  

^a DEPARTMENT OF LIFE SCIENCES   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BODY SIZE; CLIMATE; ECOLOGY; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; EVOLUTION; FAUNA; FOSSIL; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; PRIMATE; REVIEW; SPECIES; TAXONOMY;

HOMINOIDEA; MAMMALIA; PRIMATES;

EID: 0029869996     PISSN: 14647931     EISSN: 1469185X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-185X.1996.tb00749.x     Document Type: Article

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