Introduction to the Volume

Vertebrate Paleobiology and Paleoanthropology

Volumn , Issue 9781402087929, 2009, Pages 1-20

  Haynes, Gary ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA   (United States)

Author keywords

Blitzkrieg; Climate change; Hyperdisease; Overkill; Sitzkrieg; Theories

Indexed keywords

EID: 85045392046     PISSN: 18779077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4020-8793-6_1     Document Type: Chapter

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