Evolution of improvement and cumulative culture

Theoretical Population Biology

Volumn 83, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 30-38

  Nakahashi, Wataru ^a  

^a MEIJI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Enlargement of the brain; Evolutionarily stable strategy (ESS); Human evolution; Learning strategy; Neanderthals; The Upper Paleolithic revolution

Indexed keywords

BRAIN; CULTURAL TRADITION; EVOLUTIONARILY STABLE STRATEGY; HUMAN EVOLUTION; LEARNING; LIFE HISTORY TRAIT; NEANDERTHAL; NUMERICAL MODEL; PALEOLITHIC;

ARTICLE; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; EVOLUTION; HUMAN; THEORETICAL MODEL;

BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; CULTURE; HUMANS; MODELS, THEORETICAL;

HOMO SAPIENS NEANDERTHALENSIS;

EID: 84869862318     PISSN: 00405809     EISSN: 10960325     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tpb.2012.11.001     Document Type: Article

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