Does lateral transmission obscure inheritance in hunter-gatherer languages?

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 9, 2011, Pages

  Bowern, Claire ^a   Epps, Patience ^b   Gray, Russell ^c   Hill, Jane ^d   Hunley, Keith ^e   McConvell, Patrick ^f   Zentz, Jason ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

^f AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; DEMOGRAPHY; HUMAN; INHERITANCE; LANGUAGE ABILITY; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; NORTH AMERICA; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION MIGRATION; POPULATION SIZE; SOCIAL ASPECT; SOUTH AMERICA; LANGUAGE; LINGUISTICS; PHYLOGENY;

HUMANS; LANGUAGE; LINGUISTICS; PHYLOGENY; POPULATION DENSITY;

EID: 80053207329     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0025195     Document Type: Article

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