The Rebirth of Kinship

Human Nature

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 1-15

  Shenk, Mary K ^a   Mattison, Siobhán M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Evolutionary theory; History of anthropology; Human behavioral ecology; Kinship; Quantitative methods

Indexed keywords

CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; EDITORIAL; ETHNOLOGY; FAMILY RELATION; HUMAN;

ANTHROPOLOGY, CULTURAL; CULTURAL EVOLUTION; FAMILY RELATIONS; HUMANS;

EID: 79958785580     PISSN: 10456767     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12110-011-9105-9     Document Type: Article

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