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Describe the residence of early hunmans

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Human Residence Patterns

ROBERT S. WALKER

Abstract

This essay addresses the signicance and evidence surrounding the debate about

how hunter-gatherers and other humans organize their residential groups. In

most species of mammals, either males or female remain in their natal group (the

philopatric sex) while the other sex disperses at maturity (the dispersing sex).

Sex-biased philopatry and dispersal has many downstream effects on all aspects

of social bonds and organization. Recent genetic data and detailed cross-cultural

ethnographic information suggest that human societies are quite variable and

exible in nature with males and females likely to either stay or disperse from natal

families. Brothers and sisters commonly coreside in the same community and form

life-long bonds in a system quite unlike that of our primate relatives. This multilocal

human residence pattern of exible residence combined with marriage exchange

systems create complex meta-group social structures with kin-based coalitions that

extend across multiple residential groups. Human kinship and social networks that

encompass multiple communities led to the emergence of large alliances at scales


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