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Relaxed Observance of Traditional Marriage Rules Allows Social Connectivity without Loss of Genetic Diversity.
Molecular biology and evolution - 1 Sept 2015
Guillot Elsa G, Hazelton Martin L, Karafet Tatiana M, Lansing J Stephen, Sudoyo Herawati, Cox Murray P
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Marriage rules, the community prescriptions that dictate who an individual can or cannot marry, are extremely diverse and universally present in traditional societies. A major focus of research in the early decades of modern anthropology, marriage rules impose social and economic forces that help structure societies and forge connections between them. However, in those early anthropological studies, the...
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