Herto brains and minds: Behaviour of early homo sapiens from the middle awash

Proceedings of the British Academy

Volumn 158, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Beyene, Yonas ^a  

^a ADDIS ABABA UNIVERSITY   (Ethiopia)

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EID: 77953170432     PISSN: 00681202     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
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