Phylogenetic reconstruction of Bantu kinship challenges Main Sequence Theory of human social evolution

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

Volumn 111, Issue 49, 2014, Pages 17414-17419

  Opie, Christopher ^a   Shultz, Susanne ^b   Atkinson, Quentin D ^c   Currie, Thomas ^d   Mace, Ruth ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

^d UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bantu; Bayesian; Kinship; Neolithic; Phylogenetics

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL WORKER; ARTICLE; BANTU PEOPLE; BAYES THEOREM; CONSANGUINITY; HUMAN; INHERITANCE; LIFE HISTORY; MAIN SEQUENCE THEORY; MATRIFOCAL KINSHIP; PATRIFOCAL KINSHIP; PHYLOGENY; POPULATION DISPERSAL; POPULATION GENETIC STRUCTURE; POPULATION RESEARCH; SOCIAL EVOLUTION; SOCIOLOGICAL THEORY; AFRICA SOUTH OF THE SAHARA; BLACK PERSON; DEMOGRAPHY; ETHNOLOGY; EVOLUTION; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHY; LANGUAGE; MALE; MARRIAGE; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PROBABILITY; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

AFRICA SOUTH OF THE SAHARA; AFRICAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; BAYES THEOREM; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHY; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MALE; MARRIAGE; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PHYLOGENY; PROBABILITY; RESIDENCE CHARACTERISTICS; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 84918553496     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1415744111     Document Type: Article

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