Evolutionary explanation and the record of interest: Using evolutionary archaeology and dual inheritance theory to explain the archaeological record

Pattern and Process in Cultural Evolution

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 113-132

  Cochrane, Ethan E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

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