Property and wealth inequality as cultural niche construction.

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Published in Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci on March 27, 2011

Authors

Stephen Shennan1

Author Affiliations

1: UCL Institute of Archaeology, 31-34 Gordon Sq, London WC1H 0PY, UK. s.shennan@ucl.ac.uk

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