Agents of change: Modeling biocultural evolution in upper pleistocene Western Eurasia

Advances in Complex Systems

Volumn 15, Issue 1-2, 2012, Pages

  Barton, C Michael ^a   Riel Salvatore, Julien ^b  

^a ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

Gene culture coevolution; Human ecology; Land use; Modeling; Modern human origins; Neanderthals; Pleistocene hominins

Indexed keywords

EID: 84858175900     PISSN: 02195259     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1142/S0219525911003359     Document Type: Article

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