Adaptive Aspects of Hominization. Part I. Morphological and Physiological Adaptations

Authors

  • Betina Kujawa Instytut Antropologii, Uniwersytet im. Adama Mickiewicza, Fredry 10, 61-701 Poznań

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https://doi.org/10.18778/1898-6773.56.1-2.09

Abstract

Both some geological, climatic and material traces that are used in paleonthology let reconstruct the complex of the adaptive traits that were developed in Australopithecines. The environmental conditions of the South-Eastern Africa in late Pliocene and early Pleistocene directed some morphological, physiological and behavioural changes which the first hominids underwent. 

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Published

1993-12-30

How to Cite

Kujawa, B. (1993). Adaptive Aspects of Hominization. Part I. Morphological and Physiological Adaptations. Anthropological Review, 56(1-2), 115–137. https://doi.org/10.18778/1898-6773.56.1-2.09

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