Testing for divergent transmission histories among cultural characters: A study using Bayesian phylogenetic methods and Iranian tribal textile data

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 2011, Pages

  Matthews, Luke J ^a   Tehrani, Jamie J ^b   Jordan, Fiona M ^c   Collard, Mark ^d,e   Nunn, Charles L ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR PSYCHOLINGUISTICS   (Netherlands)

^d SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; ETHNOGRAPHY; EVOLUTION; HISTORY; HUMAN; HYPOTHESIS; IRAN; MARKET; PHYLOGENY; TEXTILE; ANIMAL; ANTHROPOLOGY; ARCHEOLOGY; DNA SEQUENCE; METHODOLOGY; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; THEORETICAL MODEL;

ANIMALS; ANTHROPOLOGY; ARCHAEOLOGY; BAYES THEOREM; CULTURAL EVOLUTION; CULTURE; HUMANS; IRAN; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TEXTILES;

EID: 79955713592     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0014810     Document Type: Article

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