Cumulative cultural evolution and demography

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 7, 2012, Pages

  Vaesen, Krist ^a  

^a EINDHOVEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; DEMOGRAPHY; EMPIRICAL RESEARCH; HENRICH MODEL; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; PALEOLITHIC; POPULATION MODEL; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; THEORETICAL STUDY;

CULTURAL EVOLUTION; DEMOGRAPHY; HUMANS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; POPULATION DYNAMICS; TASMANIA;

EID: 84864247737     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0040989     Document Type: Article

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