On the relationship between interindividual cultural transmission and population-level cultural diversity: a case study of weaving in Iranian tribal populations

Evolution and Human Behavior

Volumn 30, Issue 4, 2009, Pages

  Tehrani, Jamshid J ^a,b   Collard, Mark ^b,c  

^a DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Cultural transmission; Ethnography; Evolution of material culture; Iran; Phylogenetic analysis

Indexed keywords

PLOCEINAE;

EID: 67349210179     PISSN: 10905138     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2009.03.002     Document Type: Article

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