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Thyroid Hormone in Neandertal Evolution: a Natural or a Pathological Role?

A commentary on Jerome Dobson's “The Iodine Factor in Health and Evolution,” which appeared in Geographical Review,” vol. 88, 1998, pp. 1–28. The writer believes Dobson's explanation is untenable, but finds the apparent similarities he outlines between modern endemic cretins and classic Neanderthal...

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Published in:Geographical Review Vol. 92; no. 1; pp. 73 - 89
Main Author: Crockford, Susan J.
Format: Article
Published: Wiley-Blackwell January 2002
Subjects:
Paleopathology
Iodine deficiency diseases
Congenital hypothyroidism
Neanderthals
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