Resource distribution, social competition, and mating patterns in human societies

Marriage of the mother's brother's daughter will be most common in societies with avunculocal residence (240).

Test
Test Name	Support	Significance	Coefficient	Tail
Chi square	Supported	p<.001	`UNKNOWN`	`UNKNOWN`

Variables
Variable Name	Variable Type	OCM Term(s)
Avunculocal Residence	Independent	Residence
Mother's Brother's Daughter Marriage	Dependent	Regulation Of Marriage

Main Author	Published Year	Hypothesis	Supported	Variables Tested
Flinn, Mark V.	1986	Marriage of the father's brother's daughter will be more common in societies with patrilocal residence (239).	Supported	2	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author
Homans, George C.	1962	"Societies in which marriage is allowed or preferred with mother's brother's daughter but forbidden or disapproved with father's sister's daughter will be societies possessing patrilineal kin groups [matrilineal societies prefer FSD marriage]" (223).	Supported	2	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author
Flinn, Mark V.	1986	With marriage of the father's sister's daughter, father-to-son nepotism will also entail mother's brother (husband's father) to sister's daughter (son's wife) nepotism (240).	Supported	2	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author
Berting, J.	1960	"When mBd [mother's brother's daughter] marriage is found, there will probably be a status differentiation between the bride-taking and the bride-giving group" (60)	Not Supported	2	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author
Brant, Charles S.	1972	"The joking relationship tends to obtain between relatives standing in a potential sexual relationship . . . [in] maternal cross-cousin marriage, i.e., between a man and his mother's brother's daughter" (319)	Supported	2	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author