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Titles A genetic window into the human social past

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - PNAS, 2023-09, Vol.120 (37) [Peer Reviewed Journal]

Distributed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License ;ISSN: 0027-8424 ;EISSN: 1091-6490 ;DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2312672120

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  • Title:
    Titles A genetic window into the human social past
  • Author: Orlando, Ludovic
  • Subjects: Humanities and Social Sciences
  • Is Part Of: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - PNAS, 2023-09, Vol.120 (37)
  • Description: Kinship, or what links together members of the same family, fundamentally structures the web of relationships in human societies. Over the last few centuries, ethnographers have chronicled a remarkable range of kinship systems around the world, in which blood ties can be essential to irrelevant (1). Patrilineality represents the most frequent system, with family membership solely deriving from the father’s lineage. When associated with patrilocality (or female exogamy), women relocate to their husbands’s native region. Such marital and residence rules can typically be deduced from historical textual sources. They remain, however, often mysterious for the undocumented deeper past. In this PNAS issue, Blöcher et al. build on recent advances in ancient DNA (aDNA) research (2) to illuminate the descent, marriage and residence practices of a pastoral community that lived in Central Asia ~3,800 years ago (3). Their work reveals a patrilineal world in which male siblings were central to the community, as well as networks of interaction connecting people across hundreds of kilometers across the steppes.
  • Publisher: National Academy of Sciences
  • Language: English
  • Identifier: ISSN: 0027-8424
    EISSN: 1091-6490
    DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2312672120
  • Source: HAL SHS: Archive ouverte en Sciences de l'Homme et de la Société (Open Access)
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