Cultural phylogenetics of the tupi language family in lowland south america

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2012, Pages

  Walker, Robert S ^a   Wichmann, Søren ^b   Mailund, Thomas ^c   Atkisson, Curtis J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR EVOLUTIONARY ANTHROPOLOGY   (Germany)

^c AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAZIL; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; CULTURAL FACTOR; FAMILY STUDY; GENETIC TRAIT; LANGUAGE; LINGUISTICS; NOMENCLATURE; PATERNITY; PHYLOGENY; PLESIOMORPHY; POPULATION SIZE; RESIDENTIAL AREA; SIBLING; SOCIAL BELIEF; TUPI LANGUAGE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SOUTH AMERICA;

CULTURAL EVOLUTION; CULTURE; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; LINGUISTICS; MALE; PHYLOGENY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SOUTH AMERICA;

EID: 84859613218     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0035025     Document Type: Article

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