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SUBMITTER: Bell AV
PROVIDER: S-EPMC2764900 | biostudies-other | 2009 Oct
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other
Bell Adrian V AV Richerson Peter J PJ McElreath Richard R
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20091012 42
Whether competition among large groups played an important role in human social evolution is dependent on how variation, whether cultural or genetic, is maintained between groups. Comparisons between genetic and cultural differentiation between neighboring groups show how natural selection on large groups is more plausible on cultural rather than genetic variation. ...[more]