Africa from MIS 6-2: The florescence of modern humans

Vertebrate Paleobiology and Paleoanthropology

Volumn , Issue 9789401775199, 2016, Pages 1-20

  Stewart, Brian A ^a   Jones, Sacha C ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cultural transmission; Human evolution; Middle and Late Pleistocene; Middle and Later Stone Age; Paleodemography; Paleoenvironment; Population dynamics

Indexed keywords

EID: 85044919258     PISSN: 18779077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-94-017-7520-5_1     Document Type: Chapter

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