A spring forward for hominin evolution in East Africa

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 9, 2014, Pages

  Cuthbert, Mark O ^a,b   Ashley, Gail M ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^c RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GROUND WATER; SURFACE WATER;

AFRICA; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVOLUTION; EVOLUTIONARY ADAPTATION; FOSSIL HOMININ; NATURAL SELECTION; POPULATION DISPERSAL; SPRING; WATER AVAILABILITY; WATER FLOW; WATER SUPPLY; ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISPERSAL; ARCHEOLOGY; CLIMATE; ECOSYSTEM; FOSSIL; HOMINID; HUMAN; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGY; SEDIMENT; STATISTICAL MODEL; TANZANIA;

ANIMAL DISTRIBUTION; ANIMALS; ARCHAEOLOGY; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; CLIMATE; ECOSYSTEM; FOSSILS; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; GROUNDWATER; HOMINIDAE; HUMANS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; TANZANIA;

EID: 84932645549     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0107358     Document Type: Article

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