Did early Homo migrate "out of " or "in to" Africa?

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 108, Issue 26, 2011, Pages 10375-10376

  Wood, Bernard ^a  

^a THE GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AFRICA; AUSTRALOPITHECUS; GEORGIA (REPUBLIC); HOMO ERECTUS; HOMO FLORESIENSIS; HOMO HABILIS; HUMAN; MIGRATION; NOTE; PLEISTOCENE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECIES;

AFRICA; ANIMAL MIGRATION; ANIMALS; FOSSILS; HOMINIDAE;

EID: 79960585457     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1107724108     Document Type: Note

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