Letter to the editor: The role of shallow water habitats in human evolution: A response to Herries et al., 2010 critique of Wrangham et al., 2009

American Journal of Physical Anthropology

Volumn 148, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 156-158

  Sarmiento, Esteban E ^a   Wrangham, Richard ^b  

^a Human Evolution Foundation   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RAIN;

AFRICA; ANTIQUITY; BABOON; BIOMASS; CAVE; DESERT; EVOLUTION; FOSSIL HOMININ; GORILLA; HABITAT; HABITUAL ADAPTATION; HOMINID; HUMAN; LETTER; MIOCENE; NONHUMAN; PLEISTOCENE; SHELLFISH; SOUTH AFRICA; STRATIGRAPHY; TEMPERATURE;

ANIMALS; DIET; ECOSYSTEM; HOMINIDAE; RIVERS;

EID: 84859891671     PISSN: 00029483     EISSN: 10968644     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ajpa.22030     Document Type: Letter

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