Testing functional hypotheses about cross-cultural variation: A maximum-likelihood comparative analysis of Indo-European marriage practices

Pattern and Process in Cultural Evolution

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 235-249

  Fortunato, Laura ^a   Mace, Ruth ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

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