Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Preface xi
4. 1 The Question of the Origin of Human Society 1
5. I PRIMATOLOGISTS AS EVOLUTIONARY HISTORIANS
6. 2 Primatology and the Evolution of Human Behavior 17
7. 3 The Uterine Kinship Legacy 29
8. 4 From Biological to Cultural Kinship 48
9. 5 The Incest Avoidance Legacy 60
10. 6 From Behavioral Regularities to Institutionalized Rules 71
11. II THE EXOGAMY CONFIGURATION DECOMPOSED
12. 7 Lévi-Strauss and the Deep Structure of Human Society 93
13. 8 Human Society Out of the Evolutionary Vacuum 107
14. 9 The Building Blocks of Exogamy 122
15. III THE EXOGAMY CONFIGURATION RECONSTRUCTED
16. 10 The Ancestral Male Kin Group Hypothesis 135
17. 11 The Evolutionary History of Pair-Bonding 157
18. 12 Pair-Bonding and the Reinvention of Kinship 185
19. 13 Biparentality and the Transformation of Siblingships 202
20. 14 Beyond the Local Group: The Rise of the Tribe 216
21. 15 From Male Philopatry to Residential Diversity 235
22. 16 Brothers, Sisters, and the Founding Principle of Exogamy 246
23. IV UNILINEAL DESCENT
24. 17 Filiation, Descent, and Ideology 265
25. 18 The Primate Origins of Unilineal Descent Groups 276
26. 19 The Evolutionary History of Human Descent 289
27. 20 Conclusion: Human Society as Contingent 301
28. References 311
29. Index 341