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Jordan, F. M. (2013). Comparative phylogenetic methods and thestudy of pattern and process in kinship. In P. McConvell, I. Keen, & R.Hendery (Eds.), Kinship systems: change and reconstruction (pp. 43-58). University of Utah Press.http://content.lib.utah.edu/cdm/ref/collection/upcat/id/1864

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Comparative Phylogenetic Methods and the Study of Pattern and Process in Kinship

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If we ask how it is that a society has the social institutions that it does have

at a particular time the answer can only be supplied by history.

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Phylogenies can be used to infer the historical evolutionary processes that

must have existed in the past, given the patterns of diversity seen in the present.

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