Evaluating five models of human colonization.
Five patterns for the human colonization of unoccupied regions are tested for viability by the use of a new stochastic band simulation program, called ETHNOPOP ©, that incorporates four demographic variables: (1) sex ratio at birth, (2) distribution of sibships, (3) maternal risk of giving birth, an...
| Publicado en: | American Anthropologist Vol. 103; no. 2; pp. 395 - 409 |
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Wiley-Blackwell
June 2001
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