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Cultural Dimensions of Kin Investment

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Acknowledgments

Thanks go to Brooke Scelza and Mary Shenk for helping to organize the session on “Cultural Dimensions of Kin Investment,” from which most of the papers in this special issue originated, at the Evolutionary Anthropology Society/American Anthropological Association annual meetings in San Jose, California, 2006. Brooke Scelza also provided helpful comments on this introduction.

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Leonetti, D.L. Cultural Dimensions of Kin Investment. Hum Nat 19, 227–230 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12110-008-9040-6

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