ArticleHuman nature (Hawthorne, N.Y.)2011
The foundation of kinship: households.
Article in Human nature (Hawthorne, N.Y.), 2011. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.
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- Hired helpers at the nest: The association between life-cycle servants and net fertility in North Orkney, 1851-1911.American journal of physical anthropology · 2020Article
- Family ties: the multilevel effects of households and kinship on the networks of individuals.Royal Society open science · 2018Article
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- Why what juveniles do matters in the evolution of cooperative breeding.Human nature (Hawthorne, N.Y.) · 2014Article
- The rebirth of kinship: evolutionary and quantitative approaches in the revitalization of a dying field.Human nature (Hawthorne, N.Y.) · 2011Article
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Abstract
Men's hunting has dominated the discourse on energy capture and flow in the past decade or so. We turn to women's roles as critical to household formation, pair-bonding, and intergenerational bonds. Their pivotal contributions in food processing and distribution likely promoted kinship, both genetic and affinal, and appear to be the foundation from which households evolved. With conscious recognition of household social units, variable cultural constructions of human kinship systems that were sensitive to environmental and technological conditions could emerge. Kinship dramatically altered the organization of resource access for our species, creating what we term "kinship ecologies." We present simple mathematical models to show how hunting leads to dependence on women's contributions, bonds men to women, and bonds generations together. Kinship, as it organized transfers of food and labor energy centered on women, also became integrated with the biological evolution of human reproduction and life history.
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