Climate change and evolving human diversity in Europe during the last glacial

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 359, Issue 1442, 2004, Pages 243-254

  Gamble, Clive ^a   Davies, William ^a   Pettitt, Paul ^b   Richards, Martin ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Greenland ice core project; Late glacial; Phylogeography; Radiation; Radiocarbon; Stage 3

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE RADIATION; CLIMATE CHANGE; DISPERSAL; EVOLUTION; HOMINID; LATE GLACIAL; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY; PLEISTOCENE;

EURASIA; EUROPE;

ANIMALIA; HOMINIDAE; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 1242276709     PISSN: 09628436     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2003.1396     Document Type: Conference Paper

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