Using nationally representative data from the 2012 and 2014 China Labor-force Dynamics Survey, this paper investigates effects of network types (kinship/non-kinship) resources (information/influence) on job attainment match quality in China. We find a wage premium obtained through both kinship non- networks but shorter duration only jobs non-kinship networks. In regards to different networks, e...

People undeniably pay attention to faces, and facial resemblance may act as a kinship cue. However, previous studies have shown that the ability to detect kinship through facial resemblance is limited, and it has been suggested that this may be due to several types of perceptual factors. To further understand the processes that underpin kinship judgment, it is important to investigate which per...

Contextual cues of genetic relatedness to familiar individuals, such as cosocialization and maternal-perinatal association, modulate prosocial and inbreeding-avoidance behaviors toward specific potential siblings. These findings have been interpreted as evidence that contextual cues of kinship indirectly influence social behavior by affecting the perceived probability of genetic relatedness to ...

As observed in recent centuries, the contemporary variety of kinship systems reflects millennia human migration, cultural inheritance, adaptation, and diversification. This review describes key developments prehistoric kinship, from matricentric hominin evolution to Neolithic transition agriculture heterogeneous resilience matriliny. Starting with our ancestors, evolved among a cooperative bree...

Introduction This is an article about kinship, and more particularly the meaning of kinship, an issue that has characterized practically the whole history of anthropology from Lewis Henry Morgan’s pioneering studies, including the influential dismissals of kinship as a universal category by both Rodney Needham and David Schneider in the mid-twentieth century and the prominence given to Janet Ca...