Early dispersal of modern humans in Europe and implications for Neanderthal behaviour

Nature

Volumn 479, Issue 7374, 2011, Pages 525-528

  Benazzi, Stefano ^a   Douka, Katerina ^b   Fornai, Cinzia ^a   Bauer, Catherine C ^c   Kullmer, Ottmar ^d   Svoboda, Jiří ^e,f   Pap, Ildikó ^g   Mallegni, Francesco ^h   Bayle, Priscilla ⁱ   Coquerelle, Michael ^j   Condemi, Silvana ^k   Ronchitelli, Annamaria ^l   Harvati, Katerina ^c   Weber, Gerhard W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^d SENCKENBERG RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Germany)

^e Institute of Archaeology   (Czech Republic)

^f MASARYK UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

^g DEPARTMENT OF ZOOLOGY   (Hungary)

^h UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

ⁱ UNIVERSITÉ BORDEAUX 1   (France)

^j MUSEO NACIONAL DE CIENCIAS NATURALES   (Spain)

^k ETABLISSEMENT FRANÇAIS DU SANG   (France)

^l UNIVERSITY OF SIENA   (Italy)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANATOMY; BAYESIAN ANALYSIS; DATA SET; DISPERSAL; HUMAN EVOLUTION; MORPHOMETRY; NUMERICAL MODEL; PALEOLITHIC; POPULATION STRUCTURE; TAPHONOMY;

ANTHROPOLOGY; ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; BEHAVIOR; COGNITION; DECIDUOUS TOOTH; EUROPE; HUMAN; ITALY; MOLAR TOOTH; MORPHOMETRICS; PALEOLITHIC; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECIES EXTINCTION;

ANIMALS; DENTAL ENAMEL; EMIGRATION AND IMMIGRATION; FOSSILS; HISTORY, ANCIENT; HUMANS; ITALY; MOLAR; NEANDERTHALS;

EUROPE;

EID: 81855164875     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature10617     Document Type: Article

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