Are Affines Treated as Biological Kin?: A Test of Hughes's Hypothesis

Current Anthropology

Volumn 52, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 741-746

  Burton Chellew, M N ^a   Dunbar, R I M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 80053496388     PISSN: 00113204     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/661288     Document Type: Review

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