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Science 17 February 1989:
Vol. 243. no. 4893, pp. 901 - 906
DOI: 10.1126/science.2493158
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Science, Vol 243, Issue 4893, 901-906
Copyright © 1989 by American Association for the Advancement of Science

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Finite social space, evolutionary pathways, and reconstructing hominid behavior

RA Foley and PC Lee

University of Cambridge, United Kingdom.

Changes in social behavior were a key aspect of human evolution, and yet it is notoriously difficult for paleobiologists to determine patterns of social evolution. By defining the limited number of distributional strategies available to members of each sex of any species and investigating the conditions under which they may occur and change, the social behavior of different hominid taxa may be reconstructed.


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