The domestication of Amazonia before European conquest

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• Publication year

  2015

• Venue

  Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

• Publication date

  2015-08-07

• Fields of study

  Geography, Medicine, Environmental Science, History

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  DOI 10.1098/rspb.2015.0813PMID 26202998PMCID PMC4528512
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