Cultural evolution and the way we count

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 111, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 1227-1228

  Bell, Adrian Viliami ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; HUMAN; KNOWLEDGE; MATHEMATICS; NONHUMAN; NOTE; PACIFIC ISLANDER; POLYNESIA; POPULATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCTION; SOCIAL LEARNING; SURVIVAL; TONGA;

EID: 84893429223     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1322267111     Document Type: Note

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