Modeling Effects of Local Extinctions on Culture Change and Diversity in the Paleolithic

PLoS ONE

Volumn 5, Issue 12, 2010, Pages

  Premo, L S ^a   Kuhn, Steven L ^b  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR EVOLUTIONARY ANTHROPOLOGY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARCHEOLOGY; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; CULTURAL FACTOR; CULTURAL SENSITIVITY; DEMOGRAPHY; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; METAPOPULATION; PALEOLITHIC; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION; SPECIES EXTINCTION; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; HISTORY; HOMINID; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; STATISTICAL MODEL; THEORETICAL MODEL;

ANIMALS; ARCHAEOLOGY; CULTURAL CHARACTERISTICS; CULTURAL EVOLUTION; DEMOGRAPHY; EXTINCTION, BIOLOGICAL; HISTORY, ANCIENT; HOMINIDAE; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MODELS, THEORETICAL; POPULATION DYNAMICS;

EID: 78650773553     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0015582     Document Type: Article

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