High selection pressure promotes increase in cumulative adaptive culture

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Vegvari, Carolin ^a   Foley, Robert A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; CUMULATIVE ADAPTIVE CULTURE; DEMOGRAPHY; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; EVOLUTION; HIGH SELECTION PRESSURE; NATURAL SELECTION; POPULATION SIZE; SIMULATION;

ADAPTATION, BIOLOGICAL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CULTURAL DIVERSITY; CULTURE; HUMANS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SELECTION, GENETIC;

EID: 84900409225     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0086406     Document Type: Article

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