Meals Versus Snacks and the Human Dentition and Diet During the Paleolithic

Vertebrate Paleobiology and Paleoanthropology

Volumn , Issue 9781402096983, 2009, Pages 31-41

  Lucas, Peter William ^a   Sui, Zhongquan ^b   Ang, Kai Yang ^c   Tan, Hugh Tiang Wah ^c   King, Sheau Horng ^c   Sadler, Brooke ^a   Peri, Neeraja ^a  

^a GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^c NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Chemical reactors; Cooking; Diet; Digestive system; Evolution

Indexed keywords

EID: 79959286714     PISSN: 18779077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4020-9699-0_3     Document Type: Chapter

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