Brother-sister and parent-child marriage outside royal families in ancient egypt and iran: A challenge to the sociobiological view of incest avoidance?

1996/09/01 by Walter Scheidel · 5 citations
Economics, Econometrics and Finance · Psychology · Social Sciences · #Demographic Trends and Gender Preferences #Evolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior #Historical Economic and Social Studies

paper · doi:10.1016/s0162-3095(96)00074-x

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• Incest [wikipedia]
• Ptolemaic dynasty [wikipedia]