The role of cultural transmission in human demographic change: An age-structured model

Theoretical Population Biology

Volumn 88, Issue , 2013, Pages 68-77

  Fogarty, L ^a   Creanza, N ^a   Feldman, M W ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Age structure; Cultural evolution; Demography; Modes of learning

Indexed keywords

DEMOGRAPHIC HISTORY; DEMOGRAPHIC TRANSITION; ECONOMIC ANALYSIS; FERTILITY; HUMAN SETTLEMENT; NEOLITHIC; OPTIMIZATION; POPULATION GROWTH; SURVIVAL; TWENTIETH CENTURY; URBAN AREA;

EUROPE;

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARTICLE; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; DEMOGRAPHY; HUMAN; MODES OF LEARNING; PROBABILITY; THEORETICAL MODEL;

AGE STRUCTURE; CULTURAL EVOLUTION; DEMOGRAPHY; MODES OF LEARNING;

ADULT; DEMOGRAPHY; HUMANS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PROBABILITY;

EID: 84883389350     PISSN: 00405809     EISSN: 10960325     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tpb.2013.06.006     Document Type: Article

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