Untangling Oceanic settlement: The edge of the knowable

Trends in Ecology and Evolution

Volumn 18, Issue 10, 2003, Pages 531-540

  Hurles, Matthew E ^a   Matisoo Smith, Elizabeth ^b,c   Gray, Russell D ^b   Penny, David ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

^c MASSEY UNIVERSITY   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEMOGRAPHIC TREND; HISTORICAL GEOGRAPHY; POPULATION MIGRATION; SETTLEMENT HISTORY;

PACIFIC ISLANDS;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0141456013     PISSN: 01695347     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0169-5347(03)00245-3     Document Type: Review

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