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Anthropologists studying 'kinship' structures have found that social bonds are not always determined by biological relatedness. In many cultures, 'fictive kinship'—where individuals are treated as family based on shared ritual, legal ties, or economic cooperation—plays a more significant role in determining inheritance and social support than genetic lineages.
What is the main idea of the paragraph?
- The way shared rituals are the only method used to establish social bonds between non-relatives.
- The prevalence and importance of non-biological family structures in various human societies.
- The specific economic cooperation strategies used by early hunter-gatherer groups to survive.
- The total irrelevance of biological genetics in the determination of modern inheritance laws.
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