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...
| Publicado en: | Geographical Review Vol. 92; no. 1; pp. 73 - 89 |
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Wiley-Blackwell
January 2002
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