"Symbols and selectivity" revisited.
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.
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Daniel E
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William E. Stirton Professor of Anthropology, University of Michigan-Dearborn, Dearborn, MI 49128, USA. dmoerman@umich.edu
D000884:Anthropology, Cultural; D016208:Databases, Factual; D020834:Ethnopharmacology / Q000379:methods*; D010946:Plants, Medicinal