Nonkin

Food sharing with nonkin reduces the costs to kin of child rearing, but also reduces the resources recaptured by kin after an infant death, so evolved infant mortality is lower. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Simulated single-sex hunter – gatherers survive, forage, reproduce, and share food with kin and nonkin in ways guided by the ethnographic literature. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Population-level food sharing with nonkin leads to the classic pattern of constant low mortality up to sexual maturity and no postreproductive survival. ❋ Unknown (2008)

… Our tendency to favor kin over nonkin has extended to include large linguistic, national, racial, religious, and other ethnic groups. ❋ Inspector Gadget (2008)

Whereas only 45% of Americans discuss important matters with someone who is not a family member, internet users are 55% more likely to have a nonkin discussion partners. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Ungayuk akpallugiit quaktuaktuq/niqisutaiyuq/paiyuktuq niqitatianaq inviting in guests (typically same generation non-kin) food gifts to close affines and nonkin (generally restricted to elders) ❋ Unknown (2009)

The structure of early human societies, including their "high levels of cooperation between kin and nonkin," was thus an adaptation to the "specialized foraging niche" of food resources that were too difficult for other primates to capture, Dr. Kaplan and colleagues wrote recently in The Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society. ❋ Unknown (2009)

"Beyond identifying members of the same species, odors help identify kin or nonkin, members of the opposite sex, even whether individuals are fertile or genetically appropriate as mates. ❋ Unknown (2009)

"Beyond identifying members of the same species, odours help identify kin or nonkin, members of the opposite sex, even whether individuals are fertile or genetically appropriate as mates. ❋ Unknown (2009)