1969/02/01 by Frank B. Livingstone · 2 citations
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology · Psychology · Social Sciences · #Anthropology #Biological evolution #Biology #Demographic Trends and Gender Preferences #Demography #Evolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior #Evolutionary biology #Exogamy #Forensic and Genetic Research #Genetics #Geography #Hominidae #Human evolution #Human genetics #Inbreeding #Interpretation (philosophy) #Philosophy #Population #Sociology
paper · doi:10.1086/201009
openalex publication_date 1969/02/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2025/11/06
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.