How conversations around campfires came to be

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

Volumn 111, Issue 39, 2014, Pages 14013-14014

  Dunbar, Robin I M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ETHNIC GROUP; FEMALE; FIRE; HUMAN; MALE; PSYCHOLOGY; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

ETHNIC GROUPS; FEMALE; FIRES; HUMANS; MALE; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 84907587762     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1416382111     Document Type: Note

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