The capital economy in hominin evolution: How adipose tissue and social relationships confer phenotypic flexibility and resilience in stochastic environments

Current Anthropology

Volumn 53, Issue SUPPL. 6, 2012, Pages

  Wells, Jonathan C K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

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DOI: 10.1086/667606     Document Type: Article

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