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Human Evolution: Thrifty Genes and the Dairy Queen

✍ Scribed by Greg Gibson

Book ID: 113560678
Publisher: Elsevier Science
Year: 2007
Tongue: English
Weight: 71 KB
Volume: 17
Category: Article
ISSN: 0960-9822
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2007.02.011

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