Debating the environmental factors in hominid evolution

GSA Today

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 1997, Pages

  Feibel, Craig S ^a  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; EVOLUTION; HOMINID; MIOCENE; PLIOCENE;

EID: 0030669906     PISSN: 10525173     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
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