Blood is not always thicker than water: The limited effect of kin selection on human kinship in the traditional Chinese family
To examine the importance of kin selection in shaping human societies, this study analyzed the kinship system practiced in traditional China for two millennia and teased apart its underlying genetic and other, presumably cultural, components. The results demonstrate that, in the traditional patrilin...
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| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2010-04-01
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| Series: | Current Zoology |
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| Online Access: | http://www.currentzoology.org/paperdetail.asp?id=11466 |