A non-equilibrium neutral model for analysing cultural change

Journal of Theoretical Biology

Volumn 330, Issue , 2013, Pages 18-25

  Kandler, Anne ^a,b,c   Shennan, Stephen ^c  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b SANTA FE INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Conformity; Linear pottery culture; Markov chains; Neutral model; Wright Fisher model

Indexed keywords

CULTURAL CHANGE; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; FREQUENCY DEPENDENCE; MARKOV CHAIN; MUTATION; NEOLITHIC; NUMERICAL MODEL; POPULATION GENETICS; POPULATION SIZE; PROBABILITY;

ARCHEOLOGY; ARTICLE; CERAMICS; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; EVOLUTION; MUTATION RATE; NEOLITHIC; NEUTRAL MODEL; POPULATION SIZE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL;

BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL;

CENTRAL EUROPE;

EID: 84877644113     PISSN: 00225193     EISSN: 10958541     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jtbi.2013.03.006     Document Type: Article

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