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A systematic, comparative account of how human marriage systems arise and change, combining ethnographic evidence and evolutionary reasoning. It examines biological antecedents of mating and parental care, proposes a past seasonality in human pairing, and analyses the psychological and social roots of incest prohibitions. The study surveys variations in conjugal forms, residence rules, mate exchange, and sexual selection, and argues that marital institutions are rooted in family relationships and shaped by both natural and social selection. Chapters interweave data, hypotheses, and methodological discussion to explain persistence and transformation of marriage customs.

THE HISTORY
OF
HUMAN MARRIAGE

BY
EDWARD WESTERMARCK
LECTURER ON SOCIOLOGY AT THE UNIVERSITY OF FINLAND,
HELSINGFORS

London
MACMILLAN AND CO., Limited
NEW YORK: THE MACMILLAN COMPANY
1901

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Richard Clay and Sons, Limited
London and Bungay.

First Edition, 1891.
Second Edition, 1894.
Third Edition, 1901.