The earliest pigeon fanciers

Scientific Reports

Volumn 4, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Blasco, Ruth ^a   Finlayson, Clive ^a   Rosell, Jordi ^b,c   Marco, Antonio Sánchez ^d   Finlayson, Stewart ^a   Finlayson, Geraldine ^a   Negro, Juan José ^e   Pacheco, Francisco Giles ^a   Vidal, Joaquín Rodríguez ^f  

^a Gibraltar Museum   (Gibraltar)

^b UNIVERSITAT ROVIRA I VIRGILI   (Spain)

^c INSTITUT CATALÀ DE PALEOECOLOGIA HUMANA I EVOLUCIÓ SOCIAL   (Spain)

^d INSTITUT CATALÀ DE PALEONTOLOGIA MIQUEL CRUSAFONT   (Spain)

^e DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION BIOLOGY   (Spain)

^f UNIVERSITY OF HUELVA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; ANIMAL; BONE; CAVE; FOSSIL; HOMO NEANDERTHALENSIS; HUMAN; PHYSIOLOGY; PIGEONS AND DOVES;

ANIMALS; BONE AND BONES; CAVES; COLUMBIDAE; FOSSILS; HUMANS; NEANDERTHALS;

EID: 84905852051     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep05971     Document Type: Article

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