Although cooperative social networks are considered key to human evolution, emphasis has usually been placed on the functions of men’s networks. What do women’s look like? Do they differ from and what does this suggest about evolutionarily inherited gender differences in reproductive strategies? In paper, we test ‘universal differences’ hypothesis positing gender-specific network structures aga...

the present study aims at exploring kinship terms and the different ways in which they are used to refer to and address relatives and non-relatives in hawrami, an iranian language spoken in paveh, a border city in kermanshah province. the relevant linguistic and cultural data are obtained primarily by one of the researchers as a native speaker of the dialect and through field works and intervie...