ABSTRACT
Robin Fox has made a number of significant contributions to kinship studies within anthropology. This chapter focuses on one thread of his work, namely, his analysis of human kinship in relation to that of nonhuman primates, in an effort to elucidate the origins and evolution of human forms. In 1967, Fox published a text, Kinship and Marriage, a remarkable book that made a complex subject simple and an often boring topic lively and interesting. This will be the challenge of the future of at least one line of kinship studies, a line stemming from the early work of Fox, taking seriously the contributions of primatology, adopting scientific paradigms, and including perspectives of many disciplines. For Fox, the hominid transition to large-game hunting accelerated this process, as it ushered in a number of changes in male-female relationships and mating strategies for some units of the primate baseline.
