Natural selection and cultural rates of change

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 105, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 3416-3420

  Rogers, Deborah S ^a   Ehrlich, Paul R ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Canoe design; Cultural evolution; Polynesia; Signatures of selection

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; CULTURAL FACTOR; CULTURAL VALUE; EVOLUTIONARY ADAPTATION; NATURAL SELECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; GENETIC SELECTION; HUMAN; POLYNESIA; SHIP; THEORETICAL MODEL;

CULTURAL CHARACTERISTICS; CULTURAL EVOLUTION; HUMANS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; POLYNESIA; SELECTION (GENETICS); SHIPS;

EID: 42149163414     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0711802105     Document Type: Article

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