The Origins of Kin Base Institutions

i argue that cultural evolution harnessed these instincts to build the first and most primordial of human institutions, what anthropologists call kin base institutions. After the origins of agriculture, competition amongt groups favored more intensive kin groups leading to the formation of clans and kindreds. In many societies, people come to see the world as governed by relationships that animate individual actions. Most of a person's relation sand are bequeathed to them at birth by virtue of their place in tha kinship network. Entire families can lose face when one member misbehaves. While dispositions like honesty have little meaning. Honesty to whom my the people i work with ask is based onnetwork andbet