Population changes across the Neanderthal-to-modern-human transition in western France: A reply to Dogandžić and McPherron (2013)

Journal of Human Evolution

Volumn 65, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 330-333

  Mellars, Paul ^a,b   French, Jennifer C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEMOGRAPHIC TRANSITION; NEANDERTHAL; POPULATION DYNAMICS;

FRANCE;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; EVOLUTION; FOSSIL; FRANCE; HISTORY; HOMO NEANDERTHALENSIS; HUMAN; TECHNOLOGY; TOOL USE;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; FOSSILS; FRANCE; HISTORY, ANCIENT; HUMANS; NEANDERTHALS; TECHNOLOGY; TOOL USE BEHAVIOR;

EID: 84883449237     PISSN: 00472484     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhevol.2013.03.006     Document Type: Article

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