Radiators are cool: A response to Braga & Boesch's published paper and reply

Journal of Human Evolution

Volumn 35, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 307-312

  Falk, Dean ^a   Gage, Timothy B ^a  

^a STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CLASSIFICATION; FOSSIL; HOMINID; HUMAN;

ANIMALS; FOSSILS; HOMINIDAE; HUMANS;

EID: 0032158597     PISSN: 00472484     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jhev.1998.0237     Document Type: Article

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