Tectonics, orbital forcing, global climate change, and human evolution in Africa

Early Hominin Paleoecology

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 103-160

  Maslin, Mark A ^a   Christensen, Beth ^b   Wilson, Kaye E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b ADELPHI UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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DOI: 10.5876/9781607322252:C04     Document Type: Chapter

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