Seasonality, Fallback Strategies, and Natural Selection: A Chimpanzee and Cercopithecoid Model for Interpreting the Evolution of Hominin Diet

Evolution Of The Human Diet: The Known, the Unknown, and the Unknowable

Volumn , Issue , 2023, Pages 324-343

  Lambert, Joanna E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

Comparative; Demonstrably; Evaluations; Evolutionary; Interpretations

Indexed keywords

EID: 85201632483     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780195183474.003.0017     Document Type: Chapter

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