Co-Residence Patterns in Hunter-Gatherer Societies Show Unique Human Social Structure

By K. Hill, Robert S. Walker, M. Bozicevic, J. Eder, Thomas N. Headland, Barry S. Hewlett, A. Hurtado, F. Marlowe, P. Wiessner, B. Wood. Science, 2011

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Craniofacial Feminization, Social Tolerance, and the Origins of Behavioral Modernity (2014, background): “In this context, cooperation and the formation of extensive social bonds would become a risk-avoidance strategy, promoting social tolerance toward unrelated and unfamiliar individuals, drastically extending the reach of social networks (Ambrose 2010; Hill et al. 2011; Seabright 2004).”
Tribal Social Instincts and the Cultural Evolution of Institutions to Solve Collective Action Problems (2012, positive): “Human huntergatherers, by contrast, maintain large networks of kin and non-kin, even in the smallest scale human societies (Wiessner 1983, 1982; Hill et al. 2011).”
Kinship Systems, Cooperation, and the Evolution of Culture (2018, positive): “In contrast, hunter-gatherers predominantly have large social networks and reside with genetically unrelated individuals (Hill et al., 2011).”
The “sociotype” construct: Gauging the structure and dynamics of human sociality (2017, positive): “However, the presence of a series of significant regularities in the size and structures of social groups, notwithstanding their remarkable variability, suggests the plausibility of a “deep structure” of social bonding for the human species [23–24].”