Your place or mine? A phylogenetic comparative analysis of marital residence in Indo-European and Austronesian societies

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 365, Issue 1559, 2010, Pages 3913-3922

  Fortunato, Laura ^a,b   Jordan, Fiona ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b SANTA FE INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR PSYCHOLINGUISTICS   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Austronesian; Cultural phylogenetics; Human social organization; Indo European; Phylogenetic comparative methods; Post marital residence

Indexed keywords

COMPARATIVE STUDY; KINSHIP; LANGUAGE; NEOLITHIC; PHYLOGENETICS; PREHISTORIC; SOCIAL ORGANIZATION;

AUSTRALIA; EUROPE;

EID: 78650339686     PISSN: 09628436     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2010.0017     Document Type: Article

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