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Kin recognition in humans
Kapicová, Lucie ; Štěrbová, Zuzana (advisor) ; Frynta, Daniel (referee)
This work reviews various papers focused on human kin recognition. First, it briefly describes evolutionary reasons for kin recognition; then, it deals with issues regarding the terminology, and it continues with the introduction of recognition mechanisms (phenotype matching, recognition alleles, spatial distribution and association) and of modalities utilized for recognition (visual, olfactory, acoustic, and tactile modalities). This work also discusses the cultural aspects of kin recognition. Cultural aspects are often omitted by authors even though they play an important role in human kin recognition. This works links the cultural aspects of kin recognition with the biological ones.
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