Human Nutritional Evolution

Human Biology: An Evolutionary and Biocultural Perspective: Second Edition

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 251-324

  Leonard, William R ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Dietary implications in evolutionary changes in hominins, and stressors; Human nutritional evolution, intraspecific dietary, metabolic diversity; Interpopulational variation, insight into enviro cultural influence

Indexed keywords

EID: 84887145490     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781118108062.ch7     Document Type: Chapter

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