Interrogating Human Origins

@inproceedings{Porr2019InterrogatingHO,
  title={Interrogating Human Origins},
  author={Martin Porr and Jacqueline Matthews},
  year={2019},
  url={https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:213556117}
}
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