Incest Taboo
Associated Documents (4)
| Main Author | Published Year | Title | Document Type | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Murdock, George Peter | Social structure | Book | |||
| Leavitt, Gregory C. | Disappearance of the incest taboo: a cross-cultural test of general evolutionary hypotheses | Article | |||
| van den Berghe, Pierre L. | Incest and exogamy: a sociobiological reconsideration | Article | |||
| Thornhill, Nancy Wilmsen | The evolutionary significance of incest rules | Article | |||
Associated Hypotheses (4)
| Main Author | Published Year | Hypothesis | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Murdock, George Peter | 1949 | "[There is a] tendency of incest taboos to be associated with those relatives who are called mother, sister, or daughter" (288) | |
| Leavitt, Gregory C. | 1989 | Controlling for simple societies, incest taboo extension is negatively associated with military, transportation, and communication technology as well as economic differentiation, settlement size, and trade (116, 119, 124). | |
| van den Berghe, Pierre L. | 1980 | No novel statistical tests were performed for this study. | |
| Thornhill, Nancy Wilmsen | 1990 | Rule-makers will be exempt from inbreeding rules (116-117, 122). |