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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 | |