ArticleHuman nature (Hawthorne, N.Y.)2011
The rebirth of kinship: evolutionary and quantitative approaches in the revitalization of a dying field.
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 12 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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- The evolution of female-biased kinship in humans and other mammals.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2019Article
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- Family ties: the multilevel effects of households and kinship on the networks of individuals.Royal Society open science · 2018Article
- Modernizing Evolutionary Anthropology : Introduction to the Special Issue.Human nature (Hawthorne, N.Y.) · 2016Article
- Adoption Does Not Increase the Risk of Mortality among Taiwanese Girls in a Longitudinal Analysis.PloS one · 2015Article
- Intergenerational and sibling conflict under patrilocality. A model of reproductive skew applied to human kinship.Human nature (Hawthorne, N.Y.) · 2014Article
- The evolution of matrilineal kinship organization.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2012Article
- The matrilocal tribe: an organization of demic expansion.Human nature (Hawthorne, N.Y.) · 2011Article
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Abstract
Kinship was one of the key areas of research interest among anthropologists in the nineteenth century, one of the most hotly debated areas of theory in the early and mid-twentieth century, and yet an area of waning interest by the end of the twentieth century. Since then, the study of kinship has experienced a revitalization, with concomitant disputes over how best to proceed. This special issue brings together recent studies of kinship by scientific anthropologists employing evolutionary theory and quantitative methods. We argue that the melding of the evolutionary theoretical perspective with quantitative and ethnographic methodologies has strengthened and reinvigorated the study of kinship by synthesizing and extending existing research via rigorous analyses of evidence.
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