Genetics, Ecology and the Origins of Incest and Exogamy
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2188331 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Frank B Livingstone (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1969 |
| Volume | 10 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 45-61 |
| Publication date | 1969-02-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Current Anthropology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0011-3204 • E-ISSN: 1537-5382 |
| Publisher | University of Chicago Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1086/201009 |
| OpenAlex | W1993015887 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 26 |
The biological consequences of inbreeding are often advanced as the cause of the evolution of incest and exogamy in human societies. This paper attempts to show that genetic analysis does not support such a conclusion. An alternate reconstruction of the origins of incest and exogamy based on cultural and populational consequences of these phenomena is proposed to show that reconstructions of human cultural evolution can contribute to the interpretation of human biological evolution
Biological evolution · Biology · Evolutionary biology · Exogamy · Geography · Hominidae · Human evolution · Human genetics · Inbreeding · Interpretation (philosophy · Population · Sociology · Anthropology · Demographic Trends and Gender Preferences · Demography · Evolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior · Forensic and Genetic Research · Genetics · Philosophy
Simulating Hemoglobin History
Assortative mating, or who marries whom?
On one Type of Archaic Signs in Art and Pictography
Incest Avoidance
Die biologischen Wurzeln des Inzestverbots
Sociobiological Explanations of Incest Avoidance
On the Origin and Extension of the Incest Taboo
Inbreeding in the Kota of Nilgiri Hills, Madras
Sibling incest in the royal families of Egypt, Peru, and Hawaii
The Keppel Islands - Preliminary Investigations
Mate selection among second generation kibbutz adolescents and adults
The Evolutionary Emergence of Modern Human Behaviour
Hominid Dental Evolution and the Origins of Language
Incest Avoidance as a Function of Environment and Heredity [and Comments and Reply]
The evolution and functional significance of incest avoidance
Hominoids, hominids and the problem of the lower boundary of the Anthropogene
L'économie politique du sexe
Blood Under the Bridge
Amity and Aggression
Incest and Identity
Folk Theory and the Incest Taboo
Can Aversion Explain the Incest Taboo? Comment on McCabe
On the Evolutionary Foundations of Language
The incest taboo
On New Perspectives on Ape and Human Evolution
Assumption and Inference on Human Origins
| Unique citing works | 26 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,47 |
| Citation span | 1971 - 2011 (41) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 25 |