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Man the Fat Hunter: The Demise of Homo erectus and the Emergence of a New Hominin Lineage in the Middle Pleistocene (ca. 400 kyr) Levant
The worldwide association of H. erectus with elephants is well documented and so is the preference of humans for fat as a source of energy. We show that rather than a matter of preference, H. erectus in the Levant was dependent on both elephants and fat for his survival. The disappearance of elephan...
Autores principales: | Ben-Dor, Miki, Gopher, Avi, Hershkovitz, Israel, Barkai, Ran |
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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Public Library of Science
2011
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3235142/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22174868 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0028689 |
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