Human niche construction in interdisciplinary focus

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 366, Issue 1566, 2011, Pages 785-792

  Kendal, Jeremy ^a   Tehrani, Jamshid J ^a   Odling Smee, John ^b  

^a DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cultural evolution; Gene culture coevolution; Human evolution; Niche construction

Indexed keywords

COEVOLUTION; ECOLOGICAL THEORY; HERITABILITY; HUMAN EVOLUTION; INTERDISCIPLINARY APPROACH; MATERIAL CULTURE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NATURAL SELECTION; NICHE; POPULATION GENETICS; TRADITIONAL KNOWLEDGE;

CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; ECOSYSTEM; EVOLUTION; HUMAN; HUMAN ACTIVITIES; INTERDISCIPLINARY EDUCATION; REVIEW;

BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; CULTURAL EVOLUTION; ECOSYSTEM; HUMAN ACTIVITIES; HUMANS; INTERDISCIPLINARY STUDIES;

EID: 79958291767     PISSN: 09628436     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2010.0306     Document Type: Article

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