The cognitive ability of extinct hominins: Bringing down the hierarchy using genomic evidences

American Journal of Human Biology

Volumn 25, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 702-705

  Paixão Côrtes, Vanessa R ^a   Viscardi, Lucas Henriques ^a,b   Salzano, Francisco Mauro ^a   Cátira bortolini, Maria ^a   Hünemeier, Tábita ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO GRANDE DO SUL   (Brazil)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO GRANDE   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HOMO SAPIENS; HOMO SAPIENS NEANDERTHALENSIS; PRIMATES;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; COGNITION; DNA SEQUENCE; EVOLUTION; GENETICS; HOMINID; HOMO NEANDERTHALENSIS; HUMAN; HUMAN GENOME; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; PHYLOGENY;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; COGNITION; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENOME, HUMAN; HOMINIDAE; HUMANS; NEANDERTHALS; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EID: 84883055337     PISSN: 10420533     EISSN: 15206300     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ajhb.22426     Document Type: Article

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