Religion and intragroup cooperation: preliminary results of a comparative analysis of utopian communities

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Issues concerning the importance of religious beliefs on intragroup cooperation are discussed. A database of 19th century utopian communes shows that when religious beliefs foster commitment towards cooperative labor among commune members, those communes formed out of religious conviction should survive longer than secular ones.

Analysis, Communal living, Religious communities

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Assumptions on sex and society in the biosocial theory of incest

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The article examines the biosocial theory of incest, which holds the biological consequences of incest have produced strong social inhibitions concerning the act. Topics include assumptions about families, assumptions about sexual inhibitions, assumptions about norm formation, and a case study of Egyptian sibling marriage.

International, Research, Children, Sex (Biology), Children and sex, Incest, Taboo

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