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Report of the Symposium ‘Water and Human Evolution’,

Gent, Belgium, April 30th 1999

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Vaneechoutte, M. Report of the Symposium ‘Water and Human Evolution’,. Hum. Evol. 15, 243–251 (2000). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02437448

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