How Is Kinship a Socio-Cultural Construct and Not a Biological

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Essay

How is kinship a socio-cultural construct and not a biological one? Discuss the ways that biology and culture interact and overlap in kinship systems.

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Best-fitting Regression Line

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Slope

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Regression

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