Environmental Hypotheses of Hominin Evolution

Yearbook of Physical Anthropology

Volumn 41, Issue , 1998, Pages 93-136

  Potts, Richard ^a  

^a DEPARTMENT OF PALEOBIOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptation; Climate; Fossil humans; Habitat; Stone tools; Variability selection

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; CLIMATE; ECOLOGY; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; EVOLUTION; FOSSIL; HUMAN; PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY; REVIEW; SEASONAL VARIATION; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; ENVIRONMENT; HISTORY; HOMINID; PALEONTOLOGY; SEASON;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ANIMALS; ENVIRONMENT; EVOLUTION; HISTORY, ANCIENT; HOMINIDAE; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PALEONTOLOGY; SEASONS;

EID: 0032246288     PISSN: 0096848X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1096-8644(1998)107:27+<93::aid-ajpa5>3.0.co;2-x     Document Type: Article

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