Bioenergetic perspectives on Neanderthal thermoregulatory and activity budgets

Vertebrate Paleobiology and Paleoanthropology

Volumn , Issue 9781402051203, 2006, Pages 113-133

  Churchill, S E ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cold adaptation; Human paleontology; Pleistocene Homo

Indexed keywords

EID: 84992474137     PISSN: 18779077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4020-5121-0_7     Document Type: Chapter

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