Group size and cultural complexity

Nature

Volumn 511, Issue 7507, 2014, Pages

  Andersson, Claes ^a   Read, Dwight ^b  

^a CHALMERS UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTIFACT; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; HUMAN; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD METHOD; NOTE; NULL HYPOTHESIS; ORGANISM GROUP SIZE; PERFORMANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY;

CULTURAL EVOLUTION; GAMES, EXPERIMENTAL; HUMANS; MALE; POPULATION DENSITY;

EID: 84903704041     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature13411     Document Type: Note

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