Does horizontal transmission invalidate cultural phylogenies?

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 276, Issue 1665, 2009, Pages 2299-2306

  Greenhill, Simon J ^a   Currie, Thomas E ^b   Gray, Russell D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Borrowing; Cultural phylogenetics; Horizontal transfer; Simulation

Indexed keywords

BAYESIAN ANALYSIS; DIVERGENCE; LANGUAGE; PHYLOGENETICS; PHYLOGENY;

ARTICLE; BAYESIAN LEARNING; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; EVOLUTION; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 66749128002     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2008.1944     Document Type: Article

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