A humid corridor across the Sahara for the migration of early modern humans out of Africa 120,000 years ago

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• Publication year

  2008

• Venue

  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

• Publication date

  2008-10-28

• Fields of study

  Geography, Medicine, Environmental Science, History

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.1073/pnas.0804472105PMID 18936490PMCID PMC2575439
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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