Humans possess great capacity for behavioral and cultural change, but our ability to
manage change is still limited. This article has two major objectives: first, to sketch a basic …

Many of the most important properties of human groups–including properties that may give
one group an evolutionary advantage over another–are properly defined only at the level of …

This paper addresses typological relationships among kinship terminologies determined
from structural differences in the way kin terms are organized as systems of concepts …

In most, if not all, societies, incest taboos—perhaps the most universal of cultural taboos—
include prohibitions on marriage between parent and child or between siblings. This …

Evolutionary developmental theories in biology see the processes and organization of
organisms as crucial for understanding the dynamic behavior of organic evolution …

Human societies share a large number of complex social traits relating to kinship, which
together constitute what is called here the human kinship configuration. I use a comparative …

Among the drivers and constraints on the evolution of complex hominin culture that have
been proposed throughout the years, demographic factors have been particularly persistent …

Kinship is a fundamental feature and basis of human societies. We describe a set of
computational tools and services, and the logic that underlies these, developed to improve …

Most commentators supported the thesis of the target article, though there were also those
who were less fully persuaded. I will begin with a response to the most critical …

Kinship terminologies consist of the terms used to reference culturally recognized kinship
relations between persons. These terms have been assumed to identify categories of …