title: "Symbols and selectivity" revisited.
abstract: The author recalls how he came to do one of the first statistical analyses of native American medicinal plants, published in volume 1 of Journal of Ethnopharmacology. The background of that paper, "Symbols and Selectivity," involved a great deal of serendipity.
authors: William E. Stirton Professor of Anthropology, University of Michigan-Dearborn, Dearborn, MI 49128, USA. dmoerman@umich.edu
authors: Daniel E
authors: DE
authors: Moerman
mesh_terms: D000884:Anthropology, Cultural; D016208:Databases, Factual; D020834:Ethnopharmacology / Q000379:methods*; D010946:Plants, Medicinal