Environments, adaptation, and evolutionary medicine should we be eating a stone age diet?

Medicine and Evolution: Current Applications, Future Prospects

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 9-33

  Elton, Sarah ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HULL   (United Kingdom)

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