Evolutionary history of hunter-gatherer marriage practices

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 2011, Pages

  Walker, Robert S ^a   Hill, Kim R ^b   Flinn, Mark V ^a   Ellsworth, Ryan M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

^b ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

ARTICLE; CULTURAL FACTOR; DNA SEQUENCE; ETHNIC GROUP; EVOLUTION; HUMAN; HUNTER GATHERER; MARRIAGE; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; POLYGYNY; SOCIAL STRUCTURE; SOCIETY; GENETICS; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION;

DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; HUMANS; MARRIAGE; PHYLOGENY;

EID: 79955694711     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0019066     Document Type: Article

References (43)

1. Murdock GP, (1949) Social structure New York Free Press.
2. Chapais B, (2008) Primeval kinship: How pair-bonding gave birth to human society Cambridge Harvard University Press.
3. Chapais B, (2010) The deep structure of human society: Primate origins and evolution. In: Kappeler PM, Silk JB, editors. Mind the gap: Tracing the origins of human universals Heidelberg Springer pp. 19-51.
4. Tylor EB, (1889) On a method of investigating the development of institutions: Applied to laws of marriage and descent. The Journal of the Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland 18: 245-272.
5. Levi-Strauss C, (1949) Les structures élémentaires de la parenté Paris Presses Universitaires de France.
6. Alexander RD, (1979) Darwinism and human affairs Seattle University of Washington Press.
7. Flinn MV, Low BS, (1986) Resource distribution, social competition, and mating patterns in human societies. In: Rubenstein D, Wrangham R, editors. Ecological aspects of social evolution Princeton NJ Princeton University Press pp. 217-243.
8. Lee RB, DeVore I, eds. (1968) Man the hunter Chicago Aldine.
9. Hawkes K, O'Connell JF, Blurton-Jones NG, (2001) Hunting and nuclear families: Some lessons from the Hadza about men's work. Current Anthropology 42: 681-709.
10. Marlowe F, (2003) The mating system of foragers in the standard cross-cultural sample. Cross-Cultural Research 37: 282-306.
11. Apostolou M, (2007) Sexual selection under parental choice: the role of parents in the evolution of human mating. Evolution and Human Behavior 28: 403-409.
12. Buss DM, (1989) Sex differences in human mate preferences: Evolutionary hypotheses tested in 37 cultures. Behavioral and Brain Sciences 12: 1-49.
13. Miller G, (2000) The mating mind London BCA.
14. Chagnon NA, (1979) Mate competition, favoring close kin, and village fissioning among the Yanomamo Indians. In: Chagnon NA, Irons WG, editors. Evolutionary biology and human social behavior: An anthropological perspective North Scituate, MA Duxbury press pp. 86-132.
15. Cronk L, (1991) Human behavioral ecology. Annual Review of Anthropology 20: 25-53.
16. Buunk AP, Park JH, Duncan LA, (2010) Cultural variation in parental influence on mate choice. Cross-Cultural Research 44: 23-40.
17. Ingman M, Kaessmann H, Pääbo S, Gyllensten U, (2000) Mitochondrial genome variation and the origin of modern humans. Nature 408: 708-713.
18. Gonder MK, Mortensen HM, Reed FA, de Sousa A, Tishkoff SA, (2007) Whole-mtDNA Genome sequence analysis of ancient African lineages. Mol Biol Evol 24: 757-76.
19. Xing J, Watkins WS, Shlien A, Walker E, Huff CD, et al. (2010) Toward a more uniform sampling of human genetic diversity: A survey of worldwide populations by high-density genotyping. Genetics 96: 199-210.
20. Birkhead TR, (2000) Promiscuity: an evolutionary history of sperm competition Cambridge Harvard University Press.
21. Harvey PH, Harcourt AH, (1984) Sperm competition, testes size, and breeding systems in primates. In: Smith RL, editors. Sperm competition and the evolution of animal mating systems Orlando, FL Academic Press pp. 589-600.
22. Geary DC, (2000) Evolution and proximate expression of human paternal investment. Psychological Bulletin 126: 55-77.
23. Plavcan JM, van Schaik CP, (1997) Interpreting hominid behavior on the basis of sexual dimorphism. Journal of Human Evolution 32: 345-374.
24. Binford LR, (2001) Constructing frames of reference: An analytical method for archaeological theory building using hunter-gatherer and environmental data sets Berkeley University of California Press.
25. Service E, (1962) Primitive social organization: An evolutionary perspective New York Random House.
26. Baker RR, Bellis MA, (1995) Human sperm competition London Chapman & Hall.
27. Anderson KG, (2006) How well does paternity confidence match actual paternity? Evidence from worldwide nonpaternity rates. Current Anthropology 47: 513-520.
28. Apostolou M, (2010) Parent-offspring conflict over mating: The case of mating age. Evolutionary Psychology 8: 365-375.
29. Apostolou M, (2008) Parent-offspring conflict over mating: The case of family background. Evolutionary Psychology 6: 456-468.
30. Apostolou M, (2008) Parent-offspring conflict over mating: The case of beauty. Evolutionary Psychology 6: 303-315.
31. Dubbs SL, Buunk AP, (2010) Parents just don't understand: Parent-offspring conflict over mate choice. Evolutionary Psychology 8: 586-598.
32. Murdock GP, (1967) The ethnographic atlas: A summary. Ethnology 6: 109-236.
33. Hill KR, Walker RS, Bozicevic M, Eder J, Headland T, et al. (2011) Co-residence patterns in hunter-gatherer societies show unique human social structure. Science 331: 1286-1289.
34. Hill KR, Barton M, Hurtado AM, (2009) The emergence of human uniqueness: Characters underlying behavioral modernity. Evolutionary Anthropology 18: 187-200.
35. Rodseth L, Wrangham RW, Harrigan AM, Smuts BB, (1991) The human community as a primate society. Current Anthropology 32: 221-254.
36. Apostolou M, (2010) Sexual selection under parental choice in agropastoral societies. Evolution and Human Behavior 31: 39-47.
37. Pakendorf B, Stoneking M, (2005) Mitochondrial DNA and human evolution. Annu Rev Genomics Hum Genet 6: 165-183.
38. Mace R, Holden C, Shennan S, eds. (2005) The evolution of cultural diversity: A phylogenetic approach Walnut Creek CA Left Coast Press.
39. Andrews RM, Kubacka I, Chinnery PF, Lightowlers RN, Turnbull DM, et al. (1999) Reanalysis and revision of the Cambridge reference sequence for human mitochondrial DNA. Nat Genet 23: 147.
40. Drummond AJ, Rambaut A, (2007) BEAST: Bayesian evolutionary analysis by sampling trees. BMC Evolutionary Biology 7: 214.
41. Maddison W, Maddison D, (2010) Mesquite: A modular system for evolutionary analysis. Version 2.73.http://mesquiteproject.org.
42. Bollback J, (2006) SIMMAP: Stochastic character mapping of discrete traits on phylogenies. BMC Informatics 7: 1-7.
43. Huelsenbeck JP, Ronquist F, Nielsen R, Bollback JP, (2001) Bayesian inference of phylogeny and its impact on evolutionary biology. Science 294: 2310-2314.