The thermoregulatory advantages of large body size for hominids foraging in savannah environments
- 1 October 1992
- journal article
- Published by Elsevier in Journal of Human Evolution
- Vol. 23 (4) , 351-362
- https://doi.org/10.1016/0047-2484(92)90071-g
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