Post-marital residence patterns show lineage-specific evolution

Jiří Moravec; Quentin Atkinson; Claire Bowern; Simon Greenhill; Fiona Jordan; Robert Ross; Russell Gray; Stephen Marsland; Murray Cox

doi:10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2018.06.002

Post-marital residence patterns show lineage-specific evolution

Jiří Moravec, Quentin Atkinson, Claire Bowern, Simon Greenhill, Fiona Jordan, Robert Ross, Russell Gray, Stephen Marsland, Murray Cox

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Abstract

Where a newly-married couple lives, termed post marital residence, varies cross-culturally and changes over time. While many factors have been proposed as drivers of this change, among them general features of human societies like warfare, migration and gendered division of subsistence labour, little is known about whether changes in residence patterns exhibit global regularities. Here, we study ethnographic observations of post-marital residence in societies from five large language families (Austronesian, Bantu, Indo-European, Pama-Nyungan and Uto-Aztecan), encompassing 371 ethnolinguistic groups ranging widely in local ecologies and lifeways, and covering over half the world’s population and geographical area.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	594-601
Number of pages	8
Journal	Evolution and Human Behavior
Volume	39
Issue number	6
Early online date	18 Jun 2018
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2018.06.002
Publication status	Published - Nov 2018

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