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Assortative Mating by Ethnicity in Longevous Families
Frontiers in Genetics, 2017 Recent work shows strong evidence of ancestry-based assortative mating in spouse pairs of the older generation of the Framingham Heart Study. Here, we extend this analysis to two studies of human longevity: the Long Life Family Study (LLFS), and the New ...
Paola Sebastiani +4 more
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Symbolic trephinations and population structure
Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, 2006 The sample examined consists of 19 skulls with symbolic trephinations and 86 skulls without trepanations dated from the X century. Skulls were all excavated in the Great Hungarian Plain in the Carpathian Basin, which was occupied by the Hungarian ...
László Szathmáry, Antónia Marcsik
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Evaluation of the relationships in the national epic of Iran from the perspective of structuralist anthropology [PDF]
زن در فرهنگ و هنر, 2016 Regarded as one of the most important concepts in Structuralism, the Theory of Binary Opposition has long been used as a yardstick against which Structuralists measure their researches in the wide realms of Linguistics, Narratives, Philosophy, Cultural ...
Reza Satari +2 more
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Social bonds and genetic ties: Kinship association and affiliation in a community of bonobos (Pan paniscus) [PDF]
, 1999 Studies of captive populations of bonobos suggest that females are more gregarious than males. This seems to contradict assumed sex-differences in kinship deriving from a speciestypical dispersal pattern of female exogamy and male philopatry.
Fruth, Barbara +3 more
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Revista Brasileira de História, 2009 Este artigo trata dos complexos temas de etnicidade e classificação social no Brasil dos séculos XVIII e XIX. Bases de dados substanciais, de fontes primárias distintas, permitem vislumbrar um quadro integrado dessa complexidade, tal como evoluiu nas ...
Douglas Cole Libby, Zephyr Frank
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Scientific Reports, 2018 When closely related individuals mate, they produce inbred offspring, which often have lower fitness than outbred ones. Geographical exogamy, by favouring matings between distant individuals, is thought to be an inbreeding avoidance mechanism; however ...
Nina Marchi +8 more
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Journal of Indonesian IslamThis paper analyzes the endogamous marriage practices among the ‘Alawiyyīn community in Pontianak Indonesia and the problems of gender inequality and child discrimination. This ethnographic research was conducted within eight months in 2021 and 2023. The
Syarifah Ema Rahmaniah +1 more
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, 2020 Building on the work of David Jobling (who suggests there is a structural coding of the Cisjordan as male and the Transjordan as female) and Rachel Havrelock (who suggests the Transjordan and Moab are places of gender deviancy), this article explores ...
P. Sabo
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Journal of Family Research, 2019 Classic assimilation theory perceives migrant-native intermarriage as both a means to and a result of immigrants’ integration processes into host societies.
Mirko K. Braack, Nadja Milewski
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Conspicuous Daughters: Exogamy, Marriage Expenditures, and Son Preference in India
Journal of Development Studies, 2019 The literature on son preference postulates a strong link between marriage expenditures, dowry practices, and son preference, leading to the elimination of female foetuses and important discriminatory practices against girls. This statement, however, has
Marie-Claire Robitaille
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