No innate aversion to marriage with near relations, p. 320.—Innate
aversion to sexual intercourse between persons living very closely
together from early youth, pp. 320-330.—Local exogamy, pp.
321-323.—Connection between the prohibited degrees and the more or
less close living together, pp. 324-329.—Connection between the
‘classificatory system of relationship’ and exogamy, p. 329.—The
one-sidedness of prohibitions due in part directly to local
relationships, in part to the influence of names, pp. 330, _et
seq._—The prohibitions of marriage between relations by alliance and
by adoption due to an association of ideas, p. 331.—The prohibitions
on the ground of ‘spiritual relationship’ due to the same cause,
_ibid._—Endogamy seldom occurs in very small communities, p.
332.—Marriage between half-brothers and half-sisters not contrary
to the principle here laid down, _ibid._—Incestuous unions due to
pride of birth, to necessity, to extreme isolation, and to vitiated
instincts, p. 333.—Incest among the lower animals, p. 334.—The effects
of cross- and self-fertilization among plants, p. 335.—Evil effects
of close interbreeding among animals, pp. 335-337.—A certain amount
of differentiation favourable for the fertilisation or union of two
organisms, pp. 337, _et seq._—Difficulty of adducing direct evidence
for the evil effects of consanguineous marriages among men, pp.
338, _et seq._—Close intermarrying among the Veddahs, pp. 339, _et
seq._—The effects of marriage between first cousins, pp. 340-343.—The
experience of isolated communities does not prove consanguineous
marriages to be harmless, pp. 343-345.—The bad consequences of
self-fertilization and close interbreeding may almost fail to appear
under favourable conditions of life, pp. 345, _et seq._—Consanguineous
marriages more injurious in savage regions than in civilized
society, p. 346.—Tendency of endogamous peoples to die out, pp.
346-350.—Peoples who ascribe evil results to close intermarriage, pp.
350-352.—The horror of incest due to natural selection, pp. 352, _et
seq._—Exogamy arose when single families united in small hordes, p.
353.—Love excited by contrasts, pp. 353-355.
CHAPTER XVI
SEXUAL SELECTION AS INFLUENCED BY AFFECTION AND SYMPATHY, AND BY
CALCULATION
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