Abstract:
t systems regulating kin-relevant behaviours are non-conscious, and calibrated by co-residence, not belief. Keywords: kin recognition; kin selection; incest; inbreeding; Freud; Westermarck 1. INTRODUCTION Perhaps the most substantial debate in human biology is over the degree to which natural selection among our ancestors had consequences that still pattern modern human behaviour. On the one hand, several leading evolutionary biologists have argued that selection has shaped even so seemingly human-specific a phenomenon as morality (Darwin 1871; Williams 1966; Hamilton 1975; Wilson 1975; Dawkins 1976; Alexander 1979; Sober & Wilson 1998). By contrast, for almost a century the consensus among mainstream social scientists has been that the capacity for culture insulates almost all human behaviour from regulation by adaptively specialized neural circuitry ---or even that the evolution of a culture-absorbing brain was accompanied by the erasure of specialized circuitry, turning the huma
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