Random drift and culture change

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 271, Issue 1547, 2004, Pages 1443-1450

  Bentley, R Alexander ^a   Hahn, Matthew W ^b   Shennan, Stephen J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Cultural evolution; First names; Patents; Pottery; Power laws; Random genetic drift

Indexed keywords

CULTURAL CHANGE; MATERIAL CULTURE; TECHNOLOGICAL CHANGE; THEORETICAL STUDY;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; DATA BASE; GENETIC DRIFT; HAPLOIDY; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MUTATION RATE; PATENT; POPULATION GENETIC STRUCTURE; POPULATION SIZE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZATION; REVIEW;

EID: 3242712399     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2004.2746     Document Type: Review

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