Communal breeding promotes a matrilineal social system where husband and wife live apart

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 280, Issue 1758, 2013, Pages

  Wu, Jia Jia ^a   He, Qiao Qiao ^a   Deng, Ling Ling ^a   Wang, Shi Chang ^b   Mace, Ruth ^c   Ji, Ting ^a   Tao, Yi ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF ZOOLOGY   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF BOTANY   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Anthropology; Kinship; Matrilineal

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOLOGY; FITNESS; HUMAN EVOLUTION; KINSHIP; NUMERICAL MODEL; PATERNITY; RELATEDNESS; REPRODUCTIVE BEHAVIOR; WALKING;

CHINA;

EID: 84878143862     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712954     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2013.0010     Document Type: Article

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