Understanding how female baboons benefit from social bonds helps humans understand their own origins.
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The respectful return in death, like the festive Christmas return of migrants, reinforces ties between generations.
‘Kinship taxation’ lowered productivity among firms in Kenya’s Garissa County by one-quarter.
Pacific Island support for Israel in the United Nations goes beyond a shared Judeo-Christian belief system. It involves a fundamental emphasis on community based on connection and relationships.
Trans and queer kinships provide emotional as well as material supports and care. But legalizing marriage alone would ignore such kinship ties.
Most exit the out-of-home care system at 18, or younger, without ongoing support.
DNA testing gives limited information about whether people are likely to be related. But even if we overcame the many practical and legal hurdles to implementing it, what’s the point?
Before the advent of genetic testing, definitions of paternity were primarily social and legal. Science has destabilized these older definitions, but it has not replaced them.
The often remade song “He Ain’t Heavy… He’s My Brother” probably owes a good deal of its enduring popularity to its depiction of the loving familial bond between two siblings - one aiding the other despite…
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