On the shape and fabric of human history

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 365, Issue 1559, 2010, Pages 3923-3933

  Gray, Russell D ^a   Bryant, David ^a,b   Greenhill, Simon J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Cultural evolution; Delta plots; Linguistic evolution; Networks; Phylogenetics; Q residual

Indexed keywords

CULTURAL HERITAGE; CULTURAL HISTORY; HUMAN EVOLUTION; LANGUAGE; PHYLOGENETICS;

EID: 78650356229     PISSN: 09628436     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2010.0162     Document Type: Article

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