Understanding cumulative cultural evolution

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

Volumn 113, Issue 44, 2016, Pages E6724-E6725

  Henrich, Joseph ^a   Boyd, Robert ^b   Derex, Maxime ^c   Kline, Michelle A ^c   Mesoudi, Alex ^d   Muthukrishna, Michael ^e   Powell, Adam T ^f   Shennan, Stephen J ^g   Thomas, Mark G ^g  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

^e LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (United Kingdom)

^f Max Planck Institute for Geoanthropology   (Germany)

^g UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; FORAGER; HUMAN; LEARNING; LETTER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHAMAN;

EID: 84994045040     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1610005113     Document Type: Letter

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