Niche construction through cooperation: A nonlinear dynamics contribution to modeling facets of the evolutionary history in the genus homo

Current Anthropology

Volumn 51, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 435-444

  Fuentes, Agustín ^a,b,c   Wyczalkowski, Matthew A ^a,b,c   MacKinnon, Katherine C ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME   (United States)

^b WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY IN ST LOUIS   (United States)

^c SAINT LOUIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 77952998594     PISSN: 00113204     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/651221     Document Type: Article

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