Genetic diversity in the matrilineal whales: Models of cultural hitchhiking and group-specific non-heritable demographic variation

Marine Mammal Science

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 58-79

  Whitehead, Hal ^a  

^a DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Cultural evolution; Gene culture coevolution; Genetic diversity; Matriline; Whale

Indexed keywords

CULTURE; GENETIC VARIATION; POPULATION GENETICS; WHALE;

CETACEA;

EID: 12244312802     PISSN: 08240469     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1748-7692.2005.tb01208.x     Document Type: Article

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