Emergent matriliny in a matrifocal, patrilineal population: a male coalitionary perspective.

ABSTRACT: Daughter-biased parental investment and limited paternal care promote matrifocality and matrilineal descent, both of which are forms of matricentric social organization. However, matrifocality can occur under patrilineal descent. We hypothesize that matrilineal descent could emergently organize social relationships if a society were normatively patrilineal but matrifocal. Furthermore, in matrifocal environments, male and female social lives are envisioned as sex-specific adaptive strategies. Males purportedly form large, flexible social support networks that conflict with conjugal partnership investment owing to a tradeoff in the allocation of effort associated with either investing in male social support or provisioning the conjugal household. However, no quantitative analyses exist about

SUBMITTER: Macfarlan SJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6664142 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature