Nurture kinshipThe concept of nurture kinship in the anthropological study of human social relationships (kinship) highlights the extent to which such relationships are brought into being through the performance of various acts of nurture between individuals. Additionally the concept highlights ethnographic findings that, in a wide swath of human societies, people understand, conceptualize and symbolize their relationships predominantly in terms of giving, receiving and sharing nurture.
Famillevignette|Le repas familial (gravure sur bois, ). vignette|La famille de Philippe V d'Espagne (en 1723). vignette|Le portrait de famille est une des formes picturales répandues d'abord dans les familles nobles puis chez les familles bourgeoises (ici la famille Souchay vers 1805). vignette|Un peu de conversation, huile sur toile de Lilly Martin Spencer, vers 1851-1852 vignette|Peinture à l'huile de Jean de Francqueville intitulée . thumb|Portrait d'un chef camerounais et de sa famille (entre 1910 et 1930).
Social Bonding and Nurture KinshipSocial Bonding and Nurture Kinship: Compatibility between Cultural and Biological Approaches is a book on human kinship and social behavior by Maximilian Holland, published in 2012. The work synthesizes the perspectives of evolutionary biology, psychology and sociocultural anthropology towards understanding human social bonding and cooperative behavior.
Inclusive fitness in humansInclusive fitness in humans is the application of inclusive fitness theory to human social behaviour, relationships and cooperation. Inclusive fitness theory (and the related kin selection theory) are general theories in evolutionary biology that propose a method to understand the evolution of social behaviours in organisms. While various ideas related to these theories have been influential in the study of the social behaviour of non-human organisms, their application to human behaviour has been debated.
