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er-clan warfare are easily interpretable in terms
of Hamilton's genetic theory. Incest taboos testify to the great
kinship-consciousness of manalthough the genetical advantage of
an incest taboo is nothing to do with altruism; it is presumably
concerned with the injurious effects of recessive genes which appear
with inbreeding. (For some reason manyanthropologists do not like
this explanation.)*
How could wild animals 'know' who their kin areor in other
wordswhat behavioural rules could they follow which would have
the indirect effect of making them seem to know about kinship? The
rule 'be nice to your relations' begs the question of how relationsare
to be recognized in practice. Animals have to be given by their genes
a simple rule for actiona rule that does not involve all-wise cognition
of the ultimate purpose of the actionbut a rule that works neverthe-
lessat least in average conditions. We humans are familiar with
rulesand so powerful are they that if we are small minded we obey a
rule itselfeven when we can see perfectly well that it is not doing us
or anybody elseany good. For instancesome orthodox Jews and
Muslims would starve rather than break their rule against eating
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