Our Social Roots: How Local Ecology Shapes Our Social Structures

Frontiers Collection

Volumn Part F956, Issue , 2011, Pages 39-54

  Mace, Ruth ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cultural Trait; Horizontal Transmission; Lactase Persistence; Niche Construction; Subsistence Strategy

Indexed keywords

EID: 85165407712     PISSN: 16123018     EISSN: 21976619     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-13968-0_3     Document Type: Chapter

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