Quantitative analysis of macroevolutionary patterning in technological evolution: Bicycle design from 1800 to 2000

Pattern and Process in Cultural Evolution

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 147-161

  Lake, Mark W ^a   Venti, Jay ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b MediaZonecom Inc   (United States)

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