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Fertility, kinship and the evolution of mass ideologies.
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Traditional human societies are organised around kinship, and use kinship networks to generate large scale community projects. This is made possible by a combination of linguistic kin recognition, a uniquely human trait, which is mediated by the reliability of kin as collaborators. When effective fertility falls, this results in two simultaneous effects on social networks: there are fewer kin that can be relied on, and the limiting effect of the local kin-clustering becomes stronger. To captu...
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- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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- 10.1016/j.jtbi.2017.01.015
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- Publisher:
- Elsevier Publisher's website
- Journal:
- Journal of Theoretical Biology Journal website
- Volume:
- 417
- Pages:
- 20-27
- Publication date:
- 2017-01-01
- Acceptance date:
- 2017-01-08
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0022-5193 and 1095-8541
- Source identifiers:
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673354
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- English
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