Male kin bonding seems an ancient inheritance, but many features of modern society may be responses to the increasing population densities made possible by the agricultural revolution.
Individual chapters are dedicated to the anthropology of kinship terminology, the lexicon of kinship that is reconstructable for the proto-language, and the philological evidence for close-kin and cousin marriage in ancient Indo-European and neighboring cultures.
Ancient Mesopotamian medicine may be represented by Esagil-kin-apli, a prominent scholar of the 11th Century BCE, who made a compilation of medical prescriptions and procedures, which he presented as exorcisms.
Based on this new validation that the phenomenon occurs among phylogenetically diverse taxa, we conclude that kin recognition by roots may be an ancient phenomenon.
But new genetic analyses of a 14,000-year-old fossil from an Argentine museum reveal that these ancient herbivores (artist's concept, above) weren't the distant kin of today's Texas roadkill.
"The Sport of Kings" hovers between fiction, history, and myth, its characters sometimes like the ancient ones bound to their tales by fate, its horses distant kin to those who drew the chariot of time across the sky.
The ancient cross-stitch technique reads to contemporary eyes as a kind of pixelation, even as kin to pointillism.
It's kin to the traditional "green man", and the book does have some roots in ancient folklore.
When I finally managed to get hold of it I discovered that The Cat Kin is a stunning debut which features a group of children who learn the ancient art of Pashki, so they can take on the characteristics of cats.
Four new species of ancient snakes, including one that lived in what is now southern England, push back the known kin of today's slitherers almost 70 million years earlier than thought.
