A stone-age meeting of minds

American Scientist

Volumn 96, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 44-51

  Wynn, Thomas ^a   Coolidge, Frederick L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOLOGY; FOSSIL RECORD; GENE; LANGUAGE; NEANDERTHAL; STONE AGE; SURVIVAL;

HOMO SAPIENS;

EID: 37749019161     PISSN: 00030996     EISSN: None     Source Type: Trade Journal    
DOI: 10.1511/2008.69.3670     Document Type: Article

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