Cultural niche construction in a metapopulation

Theoretical Population Biology

Volumn 70, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 92-104

  Borenstein, Elhanan ^a   Kendal, Jeremy ^b   Feldman, Marcus ^b  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cultural background; Cultural evolution; Demographic transition; Metapopulation; Niche construction

Indexed keywords

EVOLUTION; FERTILITY; GENETICS; METAPOPULATION; NICHE;

ARTICLE; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; HUMAN; POPULATION DYNAMICS; STATISTICAL MODEL;

CULTURAL EVOLUTION; CULTURE; HUMANS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; POPULATION DYNAMICS;

EID: 33646041529     PISSN: 00405809     EISSN: 10960325     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tpb.2005.10.003     Document Type: Article

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