The colonization of Australia and its adjacent islands and the evolution of modern cognition

Current Anthropology

Volumn 51, Issue SUPPL. 1, 2010, Pages

  Davidson, Iain ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW ENGLAND   (Australia)

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DOI: 10.1086/650694     Document Type: Article

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