Environmental variability and its impact on adaptive evolution, with special reference to human origins

Evolution on Planet Earth: The Impact of the Physical Environment

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 363-378

  Potts, Richard ^a  

^a DEPARTMENT OF PALEOBIOLOGY   (United States)

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EID: 12144260468     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1016/B978-012598655-7/50046-X     Document Type: Chapter

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