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The Evolution of Marriage and of the Family

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The Evolution of Marriage and of the Family

Charles Letourneau

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Marriage, Charles Letourneau argues, has a biological origin and a long evolutionary record, beginning with the loves of animals. His survey climbs from reproduction in nature through marriage and family customs across human societies, in the confident comparative style of French anthropology. A major nineteenth-century attempt to explain the family scientifically. Follow the institution back to its roots.

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  1. 1THE EVOLUTION OF MARRIAGE AND OF THE FAMILY
  2. 2CONTENTS.
  3. 3PREFACE.
  4. 4THE EVOLUTION OF MARRIAGE AND OF THE FAMILY.
  5. 5CHAPTER I. THE BIOLOGICAL ORIGIN OF MARRIAGE.
  6. 6I. The True Place of Man.
  7. 7II. Reproduction.
  8. 8III. Rut and Love.
  9. 9IV. Loves of Animals.
  10. 10FOOTNOTES:
  11. 11CHAPTER II. MARRIAGE AND THE FAMILY AMONGST ANIMALS.
  12. 12I. The Preservation of Species.
  13. 13II. Marriage and the Rearing of Young amongst Animals.
  14. 14III. The Family amongst Animals.
  15. 15FOOTNOTES:
  16. 16CHAPTER III. PROMISCUITY.
  17. 17I. Has there been a Stage of Promiscuity?
  18. 18II. Some Cases of Human Promiscuity.

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