Pathogens promote matrilocal family ties and the copying of foreign religions

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Behavioral and Brain Sciences 35 (2):82-83 (2012)
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Within the same pathogen-stress framework as proposed by Fincher & Thornhill (F&T), we argue further that pathogen stress promotes matrilocal rather than patrilocal family ties which, in turn, slow down the process of modernity; and that pathogen stress promotes social learning or copying, including the adoption of foreign religions.

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Ethnographic atlas.George Peter Murdock - 1967 - [Pittsburgh]: University of Pittsburgh Press.

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