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Early Human Kinship: From Sex to Social Reproduction

Nicholas J. Allen (Editor), Hilary Callan (Editor), Robin Dunbar (Editor), Wendy James (Editor)
ISBN: 978-1-4051-7901-0
Hardcover
336 pages
June 2008, Wiley-Blackwell
List Price: US $133.00
Government Price: US $92.12
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  • A major new collaboration between specialists across the range of the human sciences including evolutionary biology and psychology; social/cultural anthropology; archaeology and linguistics
  • Provides a ground-breaking set of original studies offering a new perspective on early human history
  • Debates fundamental questions about early human society: Was there a connection between the beginnings of language and the beginnings of organized 'kinship and marriage'? How far did evolutionary selection favor gender and generation as principles for regulating social relations?
  • Sponsored by the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland in conjunction with the British Academy

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