Dietary diversity: Our species-specific dietary adaptation

Archaeology of African Plant Use

Volumn , Issue , 2016, Pages 37-49

  Hillman, Gordon ^b   Wollstonecroft, Michèle ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

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DOI: 10.4324/9781315434018-9     Document Type: Chapter

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