Social Practice and Shared History, Not Social Scale, Structure Cross‐Cultural Complexity in Kinship Systems

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Topics in Cognitive Science 12 (2):744-765 (2020)
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Kinship terminologies are basic cognitive semantic systems that all human societies use for organizing kin relations. Diversity in kinship systems and their categories is substantial, but constrained. Rácz, Passmore, and Jordan explore hypotheses about such constraints from learning theories and social pressures, testing the impact of a community‐size driven learning bottleneck against the social coordination demands of different kinds of marriage and resource systems.

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