Sentence examples for kin groups from inspiring English sources

Kin groups were also the basis for Polynesian social hierarchies.

In small kin groups, identifying liars and two-faced cheats was a matter of survival.

There is little formal political organization; authority traditionally rested in the male elders of kin groups.

Matrimoieties are generally found in association with smaller kin groups, such as lineages and clans.

Sometimes a set of kin groups or communities held alternating semicompetitive feasts in which each tried to outdo the other.

The thousands of years that early humans lived in small, fragile kin groups helped shape their instinct for social distancing, anthropologists say.

A very different result emerges if one assumes that groups of organisms such as demes, kin-groups, or species, though not individuals, are nevertheless subject to selection.

Alternatively, it may be that a number of kin-groups with local power-bases may have competed for the succession.

Four (possibly five) kings, from what appear to be four different kin-groups, ruled Mercia throughout the next six years.

An alternative model of Mercian succession is that a number of kin-groups may have competed for the succession.

The other theory is that a number of kin-groups with local power-bases may have competed for the succession.