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Kin Selection Underpins Family Dynamics in Rural China
As one of the most important characteristics of human families, the number of coresident members (household size) varies widely in different...
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Evolutionary Family Research—Cost-Benefit Balance at the Interface between Kin Selection and Social Context
Many theories based on Darwinian evolutionary theory are of particular relevance to family research. The theory of kin selection is not limited to...
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Variations in Access to Social Support: the Effects of Residential Mobility and Spatial Proximity to Kin and Family
Increasing residential mobility is said to challenge existing social support systems as mobility raises geographic distances between family members....
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The Impact of Perceived Physical Resemblance on Ascriptions of Close Relationships of Siblings, Friends, and Romantic Partners
PurposeThis study experimentally tested the impact of perceived physical resemblance on ascriptions of close relationships between individuals....
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Iban Kinship and Cooperation
Humans often display extensive forms of prosocial behavior, frequently beyond what is predicted by inclusive fitness. This observation has led to...
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Alloparental Support and Infant Psychomotor Developmental Delay
Receiving social support from community and extended family has been typical for mothers with infants in human societies past and present. In...
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Kinship and the Value of Intelligible Life
This paper analyzes the sociotechnical practices of (e)valuation embedded within two of the latest assisted reproductive technologies (ART). In doing...
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Kinship Care Systems Across High-Income Democracies: Policy, Practice, and Variation
This chapter examines kinship care as a central feature of child welfare systems in five high-income countries, reflecting a shared recognition of...
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Health selection, family division of labour and labour market participation of migrant and Australian born couples
Australia is a multi-cultural society, with the majority of recent migrants arriving from non-English speaking Asian countries. Yet we know little...
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Analysing Biases in Genealogies Using Demographic Microsimulation
An incomplete understanding of biases affecting the representativeness of genealogies has hindered their full exploitation. We report on a series of...
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Discretion and Obligation Across Volunteering and Caring: Shining Light on Non-Voluntary Carers in the Retiring Encore Segment
This paper seeks to understand pathways into volunteering in the encore life stage and contribute to policy interventions. There is a need for more...
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Subjective Inequality and Well-being in South Korea: Generational Variations in the Mediating and Moderating Effects of Social Connectedness
This study investigates the relationship between subjective well-being and inequality, with particular attention to the role of social connectedness...
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Inclusive Fitness and Human Social Behavior
If one wants to understand human social behavior in the light of evolutionary theory, one cannot avoid the concept of inclusive fitness. This...
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Good donors, bad donors and oddities in the family tree: genomics, donation and reproductive citizenship in Finnish egg donor accounts
Research on reproductive citizenship has focused on prospective or intended parents and how they are (or are not) accorded responsibility,...
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Material Sense: Perceptual Experience in Stone and Mineral Selection for Tool-Making
Enactivism advocates for the dynamic character of human perception, regarding it as a multidirectional network comprising human presence and...
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Gender, Ageing, and the Filipino Migrant Family Online: Filipina Facebook Vloggers (Reels) in Japan
Social Networking Sites (SNS) like Facebook recently gained traction as emerging spaces to connect, view, and share migrant experiences with a global...
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Animals with parents: the fictive kinship of contemporary China’s body politic
Over the recent decade, animal metaphors have emerged collectively in China’s public discourses to characterize and categorize particular social...
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The Group and the Shaman
This chapter explores how the emergence of small, kin-based foraging bands shaped the cognitive and social foundations of human cooperation,...
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Social disadvantage, context and network dynamics in later life
How do personal networks evolve as individuals age? To what degree do social disadvantage and contextual factors matter for network dynamics in later...