Models of cultural niche construction with selection and assortative mating

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 8, 2012, Pages

  Creanza, Nicole ^a   Fogarty, Laurel ^b   Feldman, Marcus W ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASSORTATIVE MATING; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; CULTURAL FACTOR; ECOLOGICAL NICHE; FERTILITY; GENDER BIAS; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC TRAIT; GENOTYPE ENVIRONMENT INTERACTION; HUMAN; MARRIAGE; PHENOTYPE; PLACE PREFERENCE; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PROCESS DEVELOPMENT; RELIGION; SEX RATIO; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT;

ALGORITHMS; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; CULTURAL EVOLUTION; CULTURE; FEMALE; FERTILITY; HUMANS; MALE; MARRIAGE; MODELS, GENETIC; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PHENOTYPE; PROBABILITY; RELIGION; REPRODUCTION; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT;

EID: 84865057376     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0042744     Document Type: Article

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