Early Human Kinship: From Sex to Social ReproductionISBN: 978-1-4443-3878-2
Paperback
336 pages
January 2011, Wiley-Blackwell
Other Available Formats: Hardcover
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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