Saharan Corridors and Their Role in the Evolutionary Geography of ‘Out of Africa I’

Vertebrate Paleobiology and Paleoanthropology

Volumn , Issue 9789048190355, 2010, Pages 27-46

  Lahr, Marta Mirazón ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Climate; Dispersal; Ecology; North Africa; Population

Indexed keywords

EID: 85045839273     PISSN: 18779077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-90-481-9036-2_3     Document Type: Chapter

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