Cultural Diversity, Economic Development and Societal Instability

Daniel Nettle; James B. Grace; Marc Choisy; Howard V. Cornell; Jean-François Guégan; Michael E. Hochberg

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0000929

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Cultural Diversity, Economic Development and Societal Instability

Daniel Nettle ,

*To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: daniel.nettle@ncl.ac.uk

Affiliation Centre for Behaviour and Evolution, Newcastle University, Newcastle, United Kingdom
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James B. Grace,

Affiliation U.S. Geological Survey, Lafayette, Louisiana, United States of America
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Marc Choisy,

Affiliations Institute of Ecology, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, United States of America, Génétique et Evolution des Maladies Infectieuses, UMR 2724 IRD-CNRS, Montpellier, France
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Howard V. Cornell,

Affiliation Department of Environmental Science and Policy, University of California at Davis, Davis, California, United States of America
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Jean-François Guégan,

Affiliation Génétique et Evolution des Maladies Infectieuses, UMR 2724 IRD-CNRS, Montpellier, France
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Michael E. Hochberg

Affiliations Institut des Sciences de l'Evolution, UMR 5554,Université Montpellier II, Montpellier, France, National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis, Santa Barbara, California, United States of America, Santa Fe Institute, Santa Fe, New Mexico, United States of America
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Cultural Diversity, Economic Development and Societal Instability

Daniel Nettle,
James B. Grace,
Marc Choisy,
Howard V. Cornell,
Jean-François Guégan,
Michael E. Hochberg

Published: September 26, 2007
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0000929

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X-axis clarification

Posted by Eustoma on 27 Sep 2007 at 14:33 GMT

Visualization of interactive effects of linguistic β diversity and religious β diversity on societal instability.
http://plosone.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0000929#pone-0000929-g003

Note that the x-axis should read "1 - Religious Jaccard. This axis is reverse coded so that the 3-D surface can be viewed. The arrow indicating that "increasing religious beta diversity decreases instability" correctly describes the orientation of the figure.

RE: X-axis clarification

PLOS_ONE_Group replied to Eustoma on 03 Oct 2007 at 17:27 GMT

An updated version of this figure is now available here:

http://www.plosone.org/co...

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X-axis clarification

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