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Gene M Mesher

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ID100440
NAMEGene M Mesher
GIVEN NAMESGene M
FAMILY NAMEMesher
SIGNATUREMESHER G M
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Washington
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS2
TOTAL CITATIONS16
AUTHOR COUNT2
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1980
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR1981
H-INDEX1
  • Royal Incest: A reply to Sturtevant

    Open Access•Pierre L Van Den Berghe, Gene M Mesher et al.•ARTICLE•American Ethnologist•1981•Cited by: 1•References: 2

  • Royal incest and inclusive fitness

    Open Access•Pierre L Van Den Berghe, Gene M Mesher•ARTICLE•American Ethnologist•1980•Cited by: 15•References: 21

    Royal incest (mostly brother-sister; less commonly father-daughter) represents the logical extreme of hypergyny. Women in stratified societies maximize fitness by marrying up; the higher the status of a woman, the narrower her range of prospective husbands. This leads to a direct association between high status and inbreeding. Royal incest is a fitness maximizing strategy if the following conditions are met: polygyny, patrilineal succession, and …

  • Royal incest and inclusive fitness

    Open Access•Pierre L Van Den Berghe, Gene M Mesher•ARTICLE•American Ethnologist•1980•Cited by: 15•References: 21

    Royal incest (mostly brother-sister; less commonly father-daughter) represents the logical extreme of hypergyny. Women in stratified societies maximize fitness by marrying up; the higher the status of a woman, the narrower her range of prospective husbands. This leads to a direct association between high status and inbreeding. Royal incest is a fitness maximizing strategy if the following conditions are met: polygyny, patrilineal succession, and …

  • Royal Incest: A reply to Sturtevant

    Open Access•Pierre L Van Den Berghe, Gene M Mesher et al.•ARTICLE•American Ethnologist•1981•Cited by: 1•References: 2

  • Royal incest and inclusive fitness

    Open Access•Pierre L Van Den Berghe, Gene M Mesher•ARTICLE•American Ethnologist•1980•Cited by: 15•References: 21

    Royal incest (mostly brother-sister; less commonly father-daughter) represents the logical extreme of hypergyny. Women in stratified societies maximize fitness by marrying up; the higher the status of a woman, the narrower her range of prospective husbands. This leads to a direct association between high status and inbreeding. Royal incest is a fitness maximizing strategy if the following conditions are met: polygyny, patrilineal succession, and …

  • Royal Incest: A reply to Sturtevant

    Open Access•Pierre L Van Den Berghe, Gene M Mesher et al.•ARTICLE•American Ethnologist•1981•Cited by: 1•References: 2

Sociology (2 works) · Biology (1 works) · Citation (1 works) · Computer Science (1 works) · Cultural Differences and Values (1 works) · Daughter (1 works) · Demography (1 works) · Demography (1 works) · European Political History Analysis (1 works) · Evolutionary biology (1 works)

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