Does climate or mobility explain the differences in body proportions between neandertals and their upper paleolithic successors?

Evolutionary Anthropology

Volumn 14, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 218-223

  Weaver, Timothy D ^a   Steudel Numbers, Karen ^b  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR EVOLUTIONARY ANTHROPOLOGY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

Energetics; Europe; Locomotion; Paleoanthropology; Selection

Indexed keywords

EID: 33646879412     PISSN: 10601538     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/evan.20069     Document Type: Review

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