Activity, climate, and postcranial robusticity: Implications for modern human origins and scenarios of adaptive change

Current Anthropology

Volumn 41, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 569-607

  Pearson, Osbjorn M ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^c STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLIMATE; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; EVOLUTION; GROWTH; HISTORY; HUMAN; HUMAN DEVELOPMENT; PALEOPATHOLOGY; SKELETON;

ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING; CLIMATE; EVOLUTION; GROWTH; HISTORY, ANCIENT; HISTORY, MEDIEVAL; HISTORY, MODERN 1601-; HUMAN DEVELOPMENT; HUMANS; PALEOPATHOLOGY; SKELETON;

EID: 0034241291     PISSN: 00113204     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/317382     Document Type: Article

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