Population size and cultural evolution in nonindustrial food-producing societies.

Modeling work suggests that population size affects cultural evolution such that larger populations can be expected to have richer and more complex cultural repertoires than smaller populations. Empirical tests of this hypothesis, however, have yielded conflicting results. Here, we report a study in...

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Main Authors: Mark Collard, April Ruttle, Briggs Buchanan, Michael J O'Brien
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2013-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3772076?pdf=render