Climate and human evolution

Science

Volumn 331, Issue 6017, 2011, Pages 540-542

  DeMenocal, Peter B ^a  

^a Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE EFFECT; HISTORICAL ECOLOGY; HISTORICAL RECORD; HUMAN EVOLUTION; THEORETICAL STUDY;

AFRICA; CLIMATE CHANGE; DESERT; ECOSYSTEM; EVOLUTION; FAUNA; FOSSIL; GEOLOGY; GRASSLAND; LANDSCAPE; PALEONTOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; ADAPTATION; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BOVIDS; ENVIRONMENT; HOMINID; HUMAN; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION; SPECIES EXTINCTION; TIME;

ADAPTATION, BIOLOGICAL; AFRICA; ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; CLIMATE CHANGE; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENT; EXTINCTION, BIOLOGICAL; FOSSILS; GENETIC SPECIATION; HOMINIDAE; HUMANS; RUMINANTS; TIME;

EID: 79551642029     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: 10959203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1190683     Document Type: Review

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