Hunter-gatherers and other primates as prey, predators, and competitors of snakes

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

Volumn 108, Issue 52, 2011, Pages

  Headland, Thomas N ^a   Greene, Harry W ^b  

^a SIL International USA   (United States)

^b Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; COMPETITOR SPECIES; DEER; ECOLOGICAL PHENOMENA AND FUNCTIONS; ETHNOGRAPHIC RESEARCH; EVOLUTION; FEMALE; HAPLORHINI; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OBSERVATION; PHILIPPINES; PHYLOGENY; PREDATION; PREDATOR; PREY; PRIMATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SNAKE; SWINE;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; ETHNIC GROUPS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; MALE; PHILIPPINES; PHYLOGENY; PREDATORY BEHAVIOR; PRIMATES; SNAKE BITES; SNAKES;

CERVIDAE; PRIMATES; PYTHON RETICULATUS; PYTHONIDAE; SERPENTES; SUIDAE; TUPAIIDAE;

EID: 84855503318     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1115116108     Document Type: Article

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