Extended mind and Visuo-Spatial integration: Three hands for the Neandertal lineage

Journal of Anthropological Sciences

Volumn 92, Issue 2014, 2014, Pages 173-280

  Bruner, Emiliano ^a,b   Lozano, Marina ^c,d  

^a CENTRO NACIONAL DE INVESTIGACIÓN SOBRE LA EVOLUCIÓN HUMANA CENIEH   (Spain)

^b Istituto Italiano di Antropologia   (Italy)

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

^d UNIVERSITAT ROVIRA I VIRGILI   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; ANIMAL; BRAIN; EVOLUTION; HOMO NEANDERTHALENSIS; HUMAN; ORGAN SIZE; PALEONTOLOGY; PARIETAL LOBE; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; BRAIN; HUMANS; NEANDERTHALS; ORGAN SIZE; PALEONTOLOGY; PARIETAL LOBE;

EID: 84919919668     PISSN: 18274765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4436/JASS.92009     Document Type: Article

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