Human origins: Out of Africa

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 106, Issue 38, 2009, Pages 16018-16021

  Tattersall, Ian ^a  

^a DIVISION OF INVERTEBRATE ZOOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Evolution; Fossil record; Homo sapiens; Symbolic cognition

Indexed keywords

AFRICA; ARCHEOLOGY; BRAIN SIZE; COGNITION; EVOLUTION; FOSSIL HOMINID; GENE EXPRESSION; HOMINID; HOMO NEANDERTHALENSIS; HOMO SAPIENS; HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SKELETON; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; FOSSIL; HISTOLOGY; METHODOLOGY; PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; TIME;

HOMINIDAE; HOMO SAPIENS;

AFRICA; ANIMALS; ANTHROPOLOGY, PHYSICAL; BEHAVIOR; EVOLUTION; FOSSILS; HOMINIDAE; HUMANS; POPULATION DYNAMICS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 70349496213     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0903207106     Document Type: Review

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