Neighbours and relatives: accounting for spatial distribution when testing causal hypotheses in cultural evolution
Many important and interesting hypotheses about cultural evolution are evaluated using cross-cultural correlations: if knowing one particular feature of a culture (e.g. environmental conditions such as temperature, humidity or parasite load) allows you to predict other features (e.g. language featur...
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Cambridge University Press
2023-01-01
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Series: | Evolutionary Human Sciences |
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Online Access: | https://www.cambridge.org/core/product/identifier/S2513843X23000233/type/journal_article |