Is the "Savanna Hypothesis" a dead concept for explaining the emergence of the earliest Hominins?

Current Anthropology

Volumn 55, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 59-81

  Dominguez Rodrigo M ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD COMPLUTENSE DE MADRID   (Spain)

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DOI: 10.1086/674530     Document Type: Article

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