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Does cultural evolution need matriliny?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 October 2001

Chris Knight
Affiliation:
Department of Sociology and Anthropology, University of East London, Dagenham, Essex RM8 2AS, United Kingdom c.knight@uel.ac.uk www.uel.ac.uk/sociology/index.html
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Abstract

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Cetacean cultural transmission is associated with lengthenedpostmenopausal life histories and relatively stable matrilinealsocial structures. Although Homo erectus was not marine adapted,broadly comparable selection pressures, life history profiles, andsocial structures can be inferred.

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© 2001 Cambridge University Press