The role of kinship in knowledge about medicinal plants: evidence for context-dependent model-based biases in cultural transmission?

The role of kinship in knowledge about medicinal plants: evidence for context-dependent model-based biases in cultural transmission?

ABSTRACT The similarity in traditional knowledge of medicinal plants was evaluated to draw inferences about the most important models for local knowledge transmission. The following questions were addressed: (1) Do related individuals possess greater similarity in knowledge of medicinal plants than...

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Main Authors: Camilla de Carvalho de Brito, Washington Soares Ferreira-Júnior, Ulysses Paulino Albuquerque, Marcelo Alves Ramos, Taline Cristina da Silva, Eraldo Medeiros Costa-Neto, Patrícia Muniz de Medeiros
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Sociedade Botânica do Brasil 2019-03-01
Series:Acta Botânica Brasílica
Subjects:
cultural evolution
cultural transmission
ethnobotany
evolutionary ethnobiology
human ecology
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