The evolution of cultural complexity: Not by the treadmill alone

Current Anthropology

Volumn 57, Issue 3, 2016, Pages 261-286

  Andersson, Claes ^a   Read, Dwight ^b  

^a CHALMERS UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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DOI: 10.1086/686317     Document Type: Article

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