Primeval Kinship: How Pair-Bonding Gave Birth to Human SocietyAt some point in the course of evolution—from a primeval social organization of early hominids—all human societies, past and present, would emerge. In this account of the dawn of human society, Bernard Chapais shows that our knowledge about kinship and society in nonhuman primates supports, and informs, ideas first put forward by the distinguished social anthropologist, Claude Lévi-Strauss. |
Contents
The Question of the Origin of Human Society | 1 |
Primatology and the Evolution of Human Behavior | 17 |
The Uterine Kinship Legacy | 29 |
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