The biology of human migration: The ape that won’t commit?

Causes and Consequences of Human Migration: An Evolutionary Perspective

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 21-44

  Wells, Jonathon C K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

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DOI: 10.1017/CBO9781139003308.005     Document Type: Chapter

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