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IF we think of the evolution of man from some anthropoid stock as the evolution of mainly instinctive (innately conditioned) behaviour into mainly customary (socially conditioned) behaviour, we can both see the possibility of the formation of a larger group than the family one characteristic of extant anthropoids and can relate the said possibility to the facts of taboo—and totemism.
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MCKERROW, J. Human Origins and Taboo. Nature 144, 1048 (1939). https://doi.org/10.1038/1441048a0
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