noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
kith and kin
next of kin
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May I have your name, address and next of kin, please?
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
close
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Because, they argued, the males in coalitions were almost always close relatives, kin selection enhanced the benefits of cooperation.
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Such a system, as he saw, minimized the differences which might otherwise be drawn between distant and close kin .
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Marriage with close kin is generally forbidden in most societies and so, commonly, is marriage with people of dissimilar culture.
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It may involve distant relatives or close kin .
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It was because most of the inhabitants of the island were close kin of one another.
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Zoologists can with greater justice call humans fish, since fish are far closer kin to humans than they are to lobsters.
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Mice, for example, excrete scents in their urine that enable females to avoid their close kin .
distant
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Roberts's evidence suggests that there has been considerable variation historically in how far support structures extend to more distant kin .
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He was intent on educating me, this distant kin , and I was grateful.
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Such a system, as he saw, minimized the differences which might otherwise be drawn between distant and close kin .
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The most intriguing memorial in the church, however, is that of Edward Trelawney, distant kin of the battling bishop.
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The wider extended family of distant kin and friends may include some who have died, but who are present in memory.
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He is distant kin to Arundel himself.
other
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In relationships between siblings or between other kin , the two-way principle seems to be the foundation of support structures.
wide
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This is true for relations with wider kin but is also the case for friendships.
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Marriage partners will feel obligations to their wider kin which may even transcend those they feel towards each other.
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Most of them suggest, however, that most members of families in Britain have some contact with their wider kin .
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More generally, there is a wider range of kin whom one is presumed to have some duty to assist.
■ NOUN
group
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The larvae live in kin groups and are aposematic, while the adults disperse to live a solitary existence and are cryptic.
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Patterns of disruption and reconstitution of kin groups do seem very different now by comparison with the past.
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In summary, the evidence shows that the shape of kin groups is subject to very significant variation over the course of time.
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Man may well have spent large portions of the last several million years living in small kin groups .
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Usually, however, the day-to-day care of the elderly in particular, was a matter for the kin group .
network
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What are the consequences of these changes for the kin networks of the current generation of older people?
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They found that the people living on the estate did not have such intimate contact with their extended kin network .
relationship
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In-laws Relationships with in-laws form a special category of kin relationships.
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Did such calculations vary in different kin relationships , especially between kin who were closer or more distant in genealogical terms?
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Decisions may make reference to expectations and values concerning kin relationships that can only be assumed.
selection
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A related misconception is that kin selection can operate only if an animal can recognize its degree of relationship to others.
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Because, they argued, the males in coalitions were almost always close relatives, kin selection enhanced the benefits of cooperation.
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If this were so, kin selection could operate only in species of high intelligence.
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The process by which such behaviour arises is often called kin selection .
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This observation, they believe, throws doubt on the importance of kin selection .
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In practice, the early stages probably require the operation of kin selection .
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The second misunderstanding concerns the ideas which must be present in an animal's mind if kin selection is to operate.
support
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Are the rather variable and unpredictable patterns of kin support , which I identified in chapter 1, of recent origin?
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The importance of this for understanding structures of kin support are important.
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How important is the exchange element in structuring kin support ?
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The data produced by Timaeus suggest that kin support has a potential to increase rather than to decline.