Introduction: Demography and Cultural Macroevolution
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Introduction: demography and cultural macroevolution.
The papers in this special issue of Human Biology, which derive from a conference sponsored by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) Center for the Evolution of Cultural Diversity, lay some of the foundations for an empirical macroevolutionary analysis of cultural dynamics. Our premise here is that cultural dynamics-including the stability of traditions and the rate of origination of ...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Human Biology
سال: 2009
ISSN: 0018-7143,1534-6617
DOI: 10.3378/027.081.0301