Population Size and Cultural Evolution in Nonindustrial Food-Producing Societies

Mark Collard; April Ruttle; Briggs Buchanan; Michael J. O’Brien

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0072628

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Population Size and Cultural Evolution in Nonindustrial Food-Producing Societies

Mark Collard ,

* E-mail: mcollard@sfu.ca

Affiliation Human Evolutionary Studies Program and Department of Archaeology, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada
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April Ruttle,

Affiliation Human Evolutionary Studies Program and Department of Archaeology, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada
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Briggs Buchanan,

Affiliations Human Evolutionary Studies Program and Department of Archaeology, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada, Department of Anthropology, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri, United States of America
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Michael J. O’Brien

Affiliation Department of Anthropology, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri, United States of America
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Population Size and Cultural Evolution in Nonindustrial Food-Producing Societies

Mark Collard,
April Ruttle,
Briggs Buchanan,
Michael J. O’Brien

Published: September 12, 2013
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0072628

About the Authors

Mark Collard

* E-mail: mcollard@sfu.ca

Affiliation Human Evolutionary Studies Program and Department of Archaeology, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada

April Ruttle

Affiliation Human Evolutionary Studies Program and Department of Archaeology, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada

Briggs Buchanan

Affiliations Human Evolutionary Studies Program and Department of Archaeology, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada, Department of Anthropology, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri, United States of America

Michael J. O’Brien

Affiliation Department of Anthropology, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MC AR BB. Performed the experiments: MC AR BB. Analyzed the data: MC AR BB MJO. Wrote the manuscript: MC AR BB MJO.

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