The Hunting Ecology of Wild Chimpanzees: Implications for the Evolutionary Ecology of Pliocene Hominids

American Anthropologist

Volumn 98, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 96-113

  Stanford, Craig B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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EID: 0030543032     PISSN: 00027294     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1525/aa.1996.98.1.02a00090     Document Type: Review

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