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Inclusive Fitness and Human Family Structure
Author(s) -
BERGHE PIERRE L.,
BARASH DAVID P.
Publication year - 1977
Publication title -
american anthropologist
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.51
H-Index - 85
eISSN - 1548-1433
pISSN - 0002-7294
DOI - 10.1525/aa.1977.79.4.02a00030
Subject(s) - inclusive fitness , sociobiology , kin selection , endogamy , exogamy , kin recognition , selection (genetic algorithm) , parental investment , sociology , social psychology , evolutionary biology , psychology , biology , demography , population , computer science , anthropology , artificial intelligence , pregnancy , genetics , offspring
The implications of sociobiology, and especially of “inclusive fitness” or “kin‐selection” theory, to human family structures are explored. Kin‐selection theory provides a model to formulate testable hypotheses predicting cooperation and conflict for categories of kinsmen; it also suggests an alternative way of looking at incest, endogamy, exogamy, rule of descent, and type of marriage in terms of such biological concepts as mating strategies, inclusive fitness, parental investment, and sexual dimorphism and bimaturism. [sociobiology, kin‐selection theory, inclusive fitness, family structure, marriage]