Random drift versus selection in academic vocabulary: An evolutionary analysis of published keywords

PLoS ONE

Volumn 3, Issue 8, 2008, Pages

  Bentley, R Alexander ^a  

^a DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; LINGUISTICS; NULL HYPOTHESIS; PHYSICAL SCIENCE; PUBLICATION; PUBLISHING; RANDOMIZATION; SCIENCE; SOCIOLOGY; STATISTICAL MODEL; VOCABULARY EVOLUTION; DATA BASE; EVOLUTION; GENETIC DATABASE; GENETIC DRIFT; GENETIC SELECTION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; NOMENCLATURE;

DATABASES AS TOPIC; DATABASES, GENETIC; EVOLUTION; GENETIC DRIFT; GENETIC VARIATION; PUBLISHING; SELECTION (GENETICS); TERMINOLOGY AS TOPIC; VOCABULARY;

EID: 52449114526     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0003057     Document Type: Article

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