Runaway cultural niche construction

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 366, Issue 1566, 2011, Pages 823-835

  Rendell, Luke ^a   Fogarty, Laurel ^a   Laland, Kevin N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cultural transmission; Gene culture coevolution; Human evolution; Niche construction; Spatially explicit models

Indexed keywords

BRAIN; COEVOLUTION; CULTURAL CHANGE; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; GENETIC STRUCTURE; HUMAN EVOLUTION; LIFE HISTORY TRAIT; NATURAL SELECTION; NICHE; THEORETICAL STUDY;

ARTICLE; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; ECOSYSTEM; EVOLUTION; GENETIC SELECTION; HUMAN; HUMAN ACTIVITIES; THEORETICAL MODEL;

BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; CULTURAL EVOLUTION; ECOSYSTEM; HUMAN ACTIVITIES; HUMANS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; SELECTION, GENETIC;

EID: 79958280481     PISSN: 09628436     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2010.0256     Document Type: Article

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