Population Size and Cultural Evolution in Nonindustrial Food-Producing Societies

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 9, 2013, Pages

  Collard, Mark ^a   Ruttle, April ^a   Buchanan, Briggs ^a,b   O'Brien, Michael J ^b  

^a SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CULTURAL FACTOR; FOOD HANDLING; FOOD INDUSTRY; LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MULTIPLE REGRESSION; POPULATION SIZE; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; SOCIOECONOMICS;

CULTURAL EVOLUTION; HUMANS; POPULATION DENSITY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

EID: 84884170468     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0072628     Document Type: Article

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