The Pace of Cultural Evolution

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 9, 2012, Pages

  Perreault, Charles ^a  

^a SANTA FE INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARCHEOLOGY; ARTICLE; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; EVOLUTION; FOSSIL; LIFE HISTORY; TECHNOLOGY;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; CULTURAL EVOLUTION; HUMANS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; TIME FACTORS;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 84866378169     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0045150     Document Type: Article

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