Flushing the radiator? A reply to Braga & Boesch

Journal of Human Evolution

Volumn 33, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 495-502

  Falk, Dean ^a   Gage, Timothy B ^a  

^a STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRAGA;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BLOOD VESSEL; HISTOLOGY; HOMINID; HUMAN;

ANIMALS; BLOOD VESSELS; HOMINIDAE; HUMANS;

EID: 0031255788     PISSN: 00472484     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jhev.1997.0168     Document Type: Article

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