Dynamical Structure of a Traditional Amazonian Social Network

Entropy

Volumn 15, Issue 11, 2013, Pages 4932-4955

  Hooper, Paul L ^a,b   Dedeo, Simon ^a,c   Caldwell Hooper, Ann E ^b   Gurven, Michael ^d   Kaplan, Hillard S ^e  

^a SANTA FE INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

Author keywords

Cooperation; Forager horticulturalists; Kinship; Reciprocity; Social networks; Social systems; Time series analysis; Tsimane

Indexed keywords

EID: 84931955396     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10994300     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/e15114932     Document Type: Article

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