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The meaning of hominid species – culture as process and product?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 September 2001

Kate Robson Brown
Affiliation:
Centre for Human Evolution Research, Department of Archaeology, University of Bristol, Bristol BS8 1TH United Kingdomkate.robson-brown@bristol.ac.uk

Abstract

One implication of Laland, Odling-Smee & Feldman's niche construction model concerns the significance of the role of behavioural or cultural traits in comparative analysis. In this commentary it is suggested that cladistic methods already recognise this importance, and that behavioural characters may play a key role in hominid speciation and the definition of species.

Type
Brief Report
Copyright
© 2000 Cambridge University Press

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