Medieval Muddles and Modern Models: A Reply to Stuard

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American AnthropologistVolume 86, Issue 3 p. 683-686 Free Access Medieval Muddles and Modern Models: A Reply to Stuard Mildred Dickemann, Mildred Dickemann Sonoma State UniversitySearch for more papers by this author Mildred Dickemann, Mildred Dickemann Sonoma State UniversitySearch for more papers by this author First published: September 1984 https://doi.org/10.1525/aa.1984.86.3.02a00110AboutPDF ToolsExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Share a linkShare onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditWechat REFERENCES CITED Boone, James L. 1983 Noble Family Structure and Expansionist Warfare in the Late Middle Ages. In Rethinking Human Adaptation: Biological and Cultural Models pp. 79– 96. R. Dyson-Hudson and M. A. Little, eds. Denver : Westview Press. Daly, Martin, and Margo Wilson 1983 Sex, Evolution, and Behavior. 2nd ed. Boston : Willard Grant Press. Dickemann, M. 1979a Female Infanticide, Reproductive Strategies and Social Stratification: A Preliminary Model. In Evolutionary Biology and Human Social Behavior: An Anthropological Perspective. N. A. Chagnon and Wm. Irons, eds. pp. 321– 367. North Scituate , Mass. : Duxbury Press. Dickemann, M. 1979b The Ecology of Mating Systems in Hypergynous Dowry Societies. Social Science Information 18(2): 162– 195. Dickemann, M. 1981 Paternal Confidence and Dowry Competition: A Biocultural Analysis of Purdah. In Natural Selection and Social Behavior: Recent Research and New Theory. R. D. Alexander and D. W. Tinkle, eds. pp. 417– 438. New York : Chiron Press. Dickemann, M. 1984 On the Search for Self-Control: A Review of Biosocial Mechanisms of Population Regulation. M. N. Cohen, R. S. Malpass and H. G. Klein, eds. Reviews in Anthropology 10(2): 1– 15. Kellum, Mary Jane 1983 Evolutionary Biology and the Human Secondary Sex Ratio; Sex Ratio Variation in the United States. In Rethinking Human Adaptation: Biological and Cultural Models. R. Dyson-Hudson and M. A. Little, eds. pp. 57– 78. Boulder : Westview Press. Langer, William L. 1972 Checks on Population Growth, 1750–1850. Scientific American 226(2): 92– 99. Langer, William L. 1974 Infanticide: A Historical Survey. History of Childhood Quarterly 1(3): 353– 365. Stuard, Susan Mosher 1984 The Sociobiological Model and the Medieval Evidence. American Anthropologist 86: 410– 413. Volume86, Issue3September 1984Pages 683-686 ReferencesRelatedInformation