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Human kin detection.

Wiley interdisciplinary reviews. Cognitive science - 1 Jan 2000

Bressan Paola, Kramer Peter

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Natural selection has favored the evolution of behaviors that benefit not only one's genes, but also their copies in genetically related individuals. These behaviors include optimal outbreeding (choosing a mate that is neither too closely related, nor too distant), nepotism (helping kin), and spite (hurting non-kin at a personal cost), and all require some form of kin detection or kin recognition. Yet, kinship...

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Cues
Discrimination, Psychological
Family
Female
Humans
Male
Odorants
Paternity
Phenotype
Social Behavior

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PMID: 26263231
DOI: 10.1002/wcs.1347

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