Prehistoric bird extinctions and human hunting

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• Publication year

  2002

• Venue

  Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series B: Biological Sciences

• Publication date

  2002-03-07

• Fields of study

  Biology, Medicine, Environmental Science, History

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  DOI 10.1098/rspb.2001.1918PMID 11886645PMCID PMC1690920
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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