There has been a rapid increase in the use of phylogenetic methods to study the evolution of
languages and culture. Languages fit a tree model of evolution well, at least in their basic …

Evolutionary culture theory (ECT) is a growing corpus of principles and arguments that
attempt to explain the" descent with modification" of human cultural systems. Although it …

A wide-ranging and accessible introduction to the origins and histories of the first agricultural
populations in many different parts of the world This fully revised and updated second …

In this ground-breaking book, Johanna Nichols proposes means of describing, comparing,
and interpreting linguistic diversity, both genetic and structural, providing the foundations for …

" No other work in this field covers the history of important conceptual issues in archaeology
in such a deep and knowledgable way, bringing both philosophical and archeological …

Comparison is fundamental to evolutionary anthropology. When scientists study
chimpanzee cognition, for example, they compare chimp performance on cognitive tasks to …

Why do people resort to plastic surgery to look young? Why are stepchildren at greatest risk
of fatal abuse? Why do we prefer gossip to algebra? Why must Dogon wives live alone in a …

Although the comparative method has been applied to a range of African language families,
these have received little coverage in general textbooks. The present monograph was …

Cross-cultural comparison is a common method of testing hypotheses regarding the co-
evolution of elements of cultures or of the adaptiveness of a cultural practice to some aspect …

1052 NATURE| VOL 405| 29 JUNE 2000| www. nature. com aluminum foil) and light bottles
(28±33 mmol photons m− 2 s− 1) and incubated them for 24 h at 3 8C. We isolated …