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William H Geoghegan

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ID116545
NAMEWilliam H Geoghegan
GIVEN NAMESWilliam H
FAMILY NAMEGeoghegan
SIGNATUREGEOGHEGAN W H
AFFILIATIONSStanford University
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS2
TOTAL CITATIONS7
AUTHOR COUNT2
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1964
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR1976
H-INDEX1
  • Polytypy in Folk Biological Taxonomies 1

    Open Access•William H Geoghegan•ARTICLE•American Ethnologist•1976

    The mathematical relationship between the size of biological genera (the number of included species, or polytypy) and their relative frequency has been well understood for over fifty years. It is argued here that a similar mathematical relationship should hold for the distribution of polytypy within folk biological taxonomies, but with the overall degree, or tendency toward polytypy subject to influence by cultural factors (salience, agricultural…

  • The Purum Case: More Structure and Statistics: A Critique of C. Ackerman's Analysis of the Purum

    Open Access•William H Geoghegan, Paul Kay•ARTICLE•American Anthropologist•1964•Cited by: 7•References: 4

  • The Purum Case: More Structure and Statistics: A Critique of C. Ackerman's Analysis of the Purum

    Open Access•William H Geoghegan, Paul Kay•ARTICLE•American Anthropologist•1964•Cited by: 7•References: 4

  • The Purum Case: More Structure and Statistics: A Critique of C. Ackerman's Analysis of the Purum

    Open Access•William H Geoghegan, Paul Kay•ARTICLE•American Anthropologist•1964•Cited by: 7•References: 4

  • Polytypy in Folk Biological Taxonomies 1

    Open Access•William H Geoghegan•ARTICLE•American Ethnologist•1976

    The mathematical relationship between the size of biological genera (the number of included species, or polytypy) and their relative frequency has been well understood for over fifty years. It is argued here that a similar mathematical relationship should hold for the distribution of polytypy within folk biological taxonomies, but with the overall degree, or tendency toward polytypy subject to influence by cultural factors (salience, agricultural…

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