The history of human marriage

Chapter 35: Transcriber’s Note

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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.

Transcriber’s Note

Obvious typographical errors have been silently corrected.

Variations in hyphenation and accents have been standardised but all other spelling and punctuation remains unchanged.

The original contained at least eight unpaired double quotation marks that could not be corrected with confidence.

The precise location of footnote 372 is speculative since it is not indicated in the original.

Incomplete entries in the index remain as printed in the original.

The cover was created by the transcriber and is placed in the public domain.