The society of our "out of Africa" ancestors (I): The migrant warriors that colonized the world

Communicative and Integrative Biology

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 163-170

  Moreno, Eduardo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Haplotypes; Human behaviour; Human evolution; Human genetics; Hunter; Out of Africa; Ritual fights; Supercompetitors; Warfare

Indexed keywords

HOMO SAPIENS;

EID: 79955952164     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19420889     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4161/cib.4.2.14320     Document Type: Article

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