Paleoanthropology: Encore Olduvai

Science

Volumn 299, Issue 5610, 2003, Pages 1193-1194

  Tobias, Phillip V ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOLOGY; ARCHAEOLOGY;

BEHAVIOR; EVOLUTION; FOSSIL; HOMINID; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LIFESTYLE; PALEOANTHROPOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHORT SURVEY; TANZANIA; TAXONOMY;

HOMINIDAE;

EID: 0037458914     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Short Survey

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