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Kinship has been a central organizing principle in evolutionary explorations of social behavior ever since Hamilton (J Theor Biol 7:1–52, 1964) extended the concept of Darwinian fitness benefits to include actions that benefit not only own offspring but also collateral kin. This insight into humans as nepotistic strategists has fueled an extensive literature on the adaptations that make up the repertoire that is our family psychology from those that shape mothers’ and fathers’ substantial investment in offspring, to parent–offspring conflict over the allocation of investment, to sibling conflict and cooperation, and the valuable investment that some grandparents make to the survival and success of their grandchildren. No understanding of social behavior can be complete without understanding where it all starts: with the families we grow up in.

Our most basic instinct is not for survival but for family. Most of us would give our own life for the survival of a family member, yet we lead our daily life too often as if we take our family for granted.

Paul Pearshall

The great advantage of living in a large family is that early lesson of life’s essential unfairness.

Nancy Mitford

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Salmon, C. (2015). Familial Relationships. In: Zeigler-Hill, V., Welling, L., Shackelford, T. (eds) Evolutionary Perspectives on Social Psychology. Evolutionary Psychology. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-12697-5_27

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