The structure of cross-cultural musical diversity

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 279, Issue 1733, 2012, Pages 1606-1612

  Rzeszutek, Tom ^a   Savage, Patrick E ^a   Brown, Steven ^a  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Analysis of molecular variance; Austronesian language family; Cultural diversity; Music; Population structure; Taiwan

Indexed keywords

COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONVERGENT EVOLUTION; CULTURAL CHANGE; GENETIC VARIATION; LANGUAGE; POPULATION STRUCTURE; SONG; VARIANCE ANALYSIS;

TAIWAN;

EID: 84857982119     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2011.1750     Document Type: Article

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