Amazonian horticulturalists live in larger, more related groups than hunter-gatherers

Evolution and Human Behavior

Volumn 35, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 384-388

  Walker, Robert S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

Author keywords

Cross cultural comparison; Genealogical relatedness; Human kinship networks; Inbreeding; Marriage patterns

Indexed keywords

EID: 84905719967     PISSN: 10905138     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2014.05.003     Document Type: Article

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