Human Mating Patterns

Herausgeber: Boyce, A. J.; Mascie-Taylor, C. G. Nicholas; Boyce, Anthony J.

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Produktbeschreibung

This book examines the causes and consequences of different mating patterns in man.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. Februar 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 421g
• ISBN-13: 9780521114684
• ISBN-10: 0521114683
• Artikelnr.: 26153308

Inhaltsangabe

Preface; Part I. Historical and Demographic Studies: 1. Mating Patterns: an
historical perspective A. D. J. Macfarlane; 2. Mating distance and
historical population structure: a review A. C. Swedlund; 3. Marriage
distance and ethnicity C. Peach and J. Clyde Mitchell; 4. Mating patterns
in isolates L. Jakobi and P. Darlu; Part II. Mate Choice and Assortative
mating: 5. Assortative mating for psychometric characters C. G. N.
Mascie-Taylor; 6. Assortative mating for anthropometric characters C.
Susanne and Y. Lepage; 7. Application of surname frequency distributions to
studies of mating preferences G. W. Lasker; Part III. Medical and
Biological Aspects of Inbreeding: 8. Genetic relatedness and the evolution
of animal mating patterns A. F. Read and P. H. Harvey; 9. Regulation of
mating choice in nonhuman primates D. Quiatt; 10. Inbreeding in human
populations: an assessment of the costs A. H. Bittles and E. Makov; 11.
Mating patterns and genetic disease P. Harper and D. F. Roberts; Part IV.
Social, Religious and Cultural Factors: 12. The effect of preference rules
on marriage patterns B. Dyke and P. G. Rivière; 13. Religious rules, mating
patterns and fertility V. Reynolds; 14. The relevance of the polygyny
threshold model to humans M. Borgerhoff Mulder; Index.