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Preface | |
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The Question of the Origin of Human Society | |
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A Forsaken Quest | |
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The Deep Structure of Human Societies | |
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Primatologists as Evolutionary Historians | |
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Primatology and the Evolution of Human Behavior | |
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The Phylogenetic Decomposition Principle | |
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Reconstructing the Exogamy Configuration | |
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The Uterine Kinship Legacy Primatological Theories and Primate Legacies | |
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Appraising Primate Kinship | |
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The Domain of Uterine Kindred in Primates | |
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How Are Uterine Kin Recognized? | |
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The Origin of Group-wide Kinship Structures | |
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From Biological to Cultural Kinship | |
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Beyond Consanguineal Kinship | |
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The "Genealogical Unity of Mankind" | |
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The Bilateral Character of Human Kinship | |
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The Incest Avoidance Legacy | |
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Elements of a Primatological Theory of Incest Avoidance | |
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Humankind's Primate Heritage | |
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From Behavioral Regularities to Institutionalized Rules | |
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The Anthropologists' Treatment of the Primate Data | |
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The Westermarck Knot | |
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The Morality Problem | |
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Lessons from Comparative Anatomy | |
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Exogamy Configuration Decomposed | |
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L�vi-Strauss and the Deep Structure of Human Society | |
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Reciprocal Exogamy as a Deep Structuring Principle | |
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Reciprocal Exogamy as Archaic | |
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The Convergence beyond the Critiques | |
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L�vi-Strauss and the Primate Data | |
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Human Society Out of the Evolutionary Vacuum | |
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Leslie White and the Primate Origins of Exogamy | |
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Elman Service and the Primitive Exogamous Band | |
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Robin Fox and the Initial Deconstruction of Exogamy | |
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The Building Blocks of Exogamy | |
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Pinpointing the Distinctiveness of Exogamy | |
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Reconstructing Human Society: The Task Ahead | |
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A Once Irreducible System | |
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The Exogamy Configuration Reconstructed | |
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The Ancestral Male Kin Group Hypothesis | |
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The Patrilocal Band Model | |
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Male Philopatry in Apes | |
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The Homology Hypothesis | |
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Updating the Ancestral Male Kin Group Hypothesis | |
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The Gorilla Alternative | |
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The Evolutionary History of Pair-Bonding | |
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The "Invariant Core of the Family" | |
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Pair-Bonds as Parental Partnerships | |
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The Pitfall of the Modern Family Reference | |
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A Two-Step Evolutionary Sequence | |
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Monogamy as a Special Case of Polygyny | |
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The Evolutionary History of the Sexual Division of Labor | |
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Pair-Bonding and the Reinvention of Kinship | |
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The Fundamental Equation of the Exogamy Configuration | |
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Kinship in the Ancestral Male Kin Group | |
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Fatherhood | |
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The Institutionalized Denial of Paternity | |
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The Development of Agnatic Kinship Structures | |
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Biparentality and the Transformation of Siblingships | |
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Chimpanzee Siblingships | |
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Fatherhood and the Evolution of Strong Brotherhoods | |
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Fatherhood and the Brother-Sister Bond | |
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The Added Effect of Shorter Interbirth Intervals | |
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Beyond the Local Group: The Rise of the Tribe | |
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Male Pacification as a Prerequisite for the Tribe | |
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Females as Peacemakers: The Consanguinity Route | |
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Females as Peacemakers: The Affinity Route | |
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The Initial Impetus | |
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The Prelinguistic Tribe | |
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From Male Philopatry to Residential Diversity | |
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Some Serious Discrepancies | |
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The Emergence of Residential Diversity | |
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Ancestral Patrilocality and Grandmothering | |
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Brothers, Sisters, and the Founding Principle of Exogamy | |
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The First Step: Outmarriage | |
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Affinal Brotherhoods and the Origin of Exogamy Rules | |
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From Siblings-in-Law to Cross-Cousins | |
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The "Atom of Kinship" Revisited | |
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Unilineal Descent | |
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Filiation, Descent, and Ideology | |
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The African Model of Unilineal Descent Groups | |
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The Chestnut within the Model | |
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The Primate Origins of Unilineal Descent Groups | |
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Group Membership through Birth | |
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Kinship-Based Segmentation | |
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The Genealogical Boundaries of Exogamy | |
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The Unisexual Transmission of Status | |
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Primitive Corporateness | |
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A Multilevel Structure of Solidarity | |
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The Evolutionary History of Human Descent Female Kin Groups as Precultural Matriclans | |
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The Residential Basis of Proto-Descent Groups | |
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The Latent Patriclan | |
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Matrilineality as a Male Affair | |
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Conclusion: Human Society as Contingent | |
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References | |
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Index | |