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Incest - Origins of the Taboo (Paperback)
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Incest - Origins of the Taboo (Paperback)
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Throughout history humans have been fascinated with incest.
Stories, fables, literature, philosophers, church officials, and
scientists have explored this mysterious topic. The taboo is
critical to human survival, as incest threatens the species and
patterns of human social organization. Drawing upon the rich legacy
of theory, empirical data, and speculation about the origins of the
incest taboo, this book develops a new explanation for not only the
emergence of the taboo in hominid and human evolutionary history
but also for the varying strength of the taboo for the incestuous
dyads of the nuclear family, the different rates of incest of these
dyads, and the dramatic differences of the psychological pathology
of incest on its younger victims. Synthesizing findings from
biology, sociobiology, neurology, primatology, clinical psychology,
anthropology, and sociology, the authors weave together a scenario
of how natural selection initially generated mechanisms of sexual
avoidance; and then, as the nuclear family emerged in hominid and
human evolution, how sociocultural selection led to the development
of the incest taboo.
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