Homo sapiens in the eastern asian late pleistocene

Current Anthropology

Volumn 58, Issue , 2017, Pages S434-S448

  Martinón Torres, María ^a   Wu, Xiujie ^b   de Castro, José María Bermúdez ^a,c   Xing, Song ^b   Liu, Wu ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b INSTITUTE OF VERTEBRATE PALEONTOLOGY AND PALEOANTHROPOLOGY   (China)

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

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EID: 85037659145     PISSN: 00113204     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/694449     Document Type: Article

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