Late pleistocene demography and the appearance of modern human behavior

Science

Volumn 324, Issue 5932, 2009, Pages 1298-1301

  Powell, Adam ^a   Shennan, Stephen ^a   Thomas, Mark G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARCHAEOLOGICAL EVIDENCE; COGNITION; CULTURE; DEMOGRAPHIC HISTORY; GEOGRAPHICAL VARIATION; HUMAN BEHAVIOR; PALEOLITHIC; PLEISTOCENE;

AFRICA; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; COGNITION; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; DEMOGRAPHY; EUROPE; GENETICS; GEOGRAPHICAL VARIATION (SPECIES); HUMAN; POPULATION SIZE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKILL; UPPER PLEISTOCENE;

AFRICA; ANTHROPOLOGY, CULTURAL; ARCHAEOLOGY; ASIA; CULTURAL EVOLUTION; EMIGRATION AND IMMIGRATION; EUROPE; EVOLUTION; HUMANS; MIDDLE EAST; MODELS, THEORETICAL; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; TIME;

AFRICA; EURASIA; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA;

EID: 66749174651     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: 10959203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1170165     Document Type: Article

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