Alternating high and low climate variability: The context of natural selection and speciation in Plio-Pleistocene hominin evolution.

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• Publication year

  2015

• Venue

  Journal of Human Evolution

• Publication date

  2015-10-01

• Fields of study

  Biology, History, Geology, Environmental Science, Medicine

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  DOI 10.1016/j.jhevol.2015.06.014PMID 26315724
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