The ecology of social transitions in human evolution

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 364, Issue 1533, 2009, Pages 3267-3279

  Foley, Robert ^a   Gamble, Clive ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Hominin behaviour; Human evolution; Social evolution; Social structure; Technological evolution

Indexed keywords

ANATOMY; BIOCHEMISTRY; COGNITION; DIVERGENCE; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; EXTINCTION; FOSSIL RECORD; HOMINID; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL STRUCTURE;

EID: 72649106032     PISSN: 09628436     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2009.0136     Document Type: Article

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