TY  - JOUR
PY  - 1979//
TI  - Demographic consequences of incest tabus: a microsimulation analysis
JO  - Science
A1  - Hammel, E. A.
A1  - McDaniel, C. K.
A1  - Wachter, K. W.
SP  - 972
EP  - 977
VL  - 205
IS  - 4410
N2  - Theories of incest tabus usually stress the psychosocial advantages of marriage regulation. But marriage regulation may produce delays in mating and thus loss of fertility to a population. Computer microsimulation experiments measure the amount of fertility that must be achieved outside a normatively specified marriage system in order to keep population constant. This amount varies directly with scope of tabu and inversely with population size. For populations of hundreds it is negligible, but for populations of dozens it can be very great. In the latter, flexibility of marital arrangements may permit maintenance of fertility without repeated revision of rules of marriage.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 0036-8075
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.205.4410.972
ID  - ref1
ER  -