The influence of the loss of functional body hair on the water budgets of early hominids
- 30 November 1992
- journal article
- Published by Elsevier in Journal of Human Evolution
- Vol. 23 (5) , 379-388
- https://doi.org/10.1016/0047-2484(92)90086-o
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