Ulteriori informazioni
Klappentext This book examines the causes and consequences of different mating patterns in man. Zusammenfassung This book examines the causes and consequences of different mating patterns in man with particular reference to historical! biological! medical and demographic factors. Each of these reference points are covered in carefully edited and integrated papers for advanced students and research workers in human biology and genetics. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface; Part I. Historical and Demographic Studies: 1. Mating Patterns: an historical perspective A. D. J. Macfarlane; 2. Mating distance and historical population structure: a review A. C. Swedlund; 3. Marriage distance and ethnicity C. Peach and J. Clyde Mitchell; 4. Mating patterns in isolates L. Jakobi and P. Darlu; Part II. Mate Choice and Assortative mating: 5. Assortative mating for psychometric characters C. G. N. Mascie-Taylor; 6. Assortative mating for anthropometric characters C. Susanne and Y. Lepage; 7. Application of surname frequency distributions to studies of mating preferences G. W. Lasker; Part III. Medical and Biological Aspects of Inbreeding: 8. Genetic relatedness and the evolution of animal mating patterns A. F. Read and P. H. Harvey; 9. Regulation of mating choice in nonhuman primates D. Quiatt; 10. Inbreeding in human populations: an assessment of the costs A. H. Bittles and E. Makov; 11. Mating patterns and genetic disease P. Harper and D. F. Roberts; Part IV. Social, Religious and Cultural Factors: 12. The effect of preference rules on marriage patterns B. Dyke and P. G. Rivière; 13. Religious rules, mating patterns and fertility V. Reynolds; 14. The relevance of the polygyny threshold model to humans M. Borgerhoff Mulder; Index.
