Table of Contents for

Inbreeding, Incest, and the Incest Taboo

List of Tables and Figures

Introduction, by Arthur P. Wolf

1.      Inbreeding Avoidance and Incest Taboos, by Patrick Bateson

2.      Genetic Aspects of Inbreeding and Incest, by Alan H. Bittles

3.      Inbreeding Avoidance in Primates, by Anne Pusey

4.      Explaining the Westermarck Effect, or, What Did Natural Selection Select For?, by Arthur P. Wolf

5.      Ancient Egyptian Sibling Marriage and the Westermarck Effect, by Walter Scheidel

6.      From Genes to Incest Taboos: The Crucial Step, by Neven Sesardic

7.      Assessing the Gaps in Westermarck's Theory, by William H. Durham

8.      Refining the Incest Taboo: With Considerable Help from Bronislaw Malinowski, by Hill Gates

9.      Evolutionary Thought and the Current Clinical Understanding of Incest, by Mark T. Erickson

10.  The Incest Taboo as Darwinian Natural Right, by Larry Arnhart

List of Contributors

Index