Cultural evolution in the Eurasian Tree Sparrow: Divergence between introduced and ancestral populations

Condor

Volumn 99, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 413-423

  Lang, Anthony L ^a   Barlow, Jon C ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

cultural evolution; Eurasian Tree Sparrow; memetic differentiation; Passer montanus; song

Indexed keywords

AVES; PASSER MONTANUS;

EID: 0030911176     PISSN: 00105422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/1369948     Document Type: Article

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