Climate change and human evolution

Science

Volumn 311, Issue 5760, 2006, Pages 476-478

  Behrensmeyer, Aura K ^a  

^a SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION   (United States)

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Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; EVOLUTION;

AFRICA; CLIMATE CHANGE; EVOLUTION; FOSSIL; HUMAN; HUMAN GENOME; LAKE; PALEOANTHROPOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOMETRY; REVIEW; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; ATMOSPHERE; CLIMATE; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; ECOSYSTEM; GEOLOGY; HOMINID; PALEONTOLOGY; TIME;

ANIMALS; ATMOSPHERE; CLIMATE; CULTURE; ECOSYSTEM; EVOLUTION; FOSSILS; GEOLOGY; HOMINIDAE; HUMANS; PALEONTOLOGY; TIME;

EID: 31544459893     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: 10959203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1116051     Document Type: Review

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