Dating human cultural capacity using phylogenetic principles

Scientific Reports

Volumn 3, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Lind, J ^a   Lindenfors, P ^a   Ghirlanda, S ^a,b   Liden K ^a   Enquist, M ^a  

^a STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARCHEOLOGY; CELL LINEAGE; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; EVOLUTION; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; LANGUAGE; PHYLOGENY; PROCEDURES; ARTICLE; METHODOLOGY;

ARCHAEOLOGY; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; CELL LINEAGE; CULTURAL EVOLUTION; HUMANS; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; LANGUAGE; PHYLOGENY;

EID: 84877755175     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep01785     Document Type: Article

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