THE NEW EVOLUTION 



we find in man a socially effective sentiment of love 

 which creates and makes a unit of the family. 



So far as the available information enables us to 

 say, all monkeys live together in promiscuous hordes 

 or troops in which each female raises her own young 

 unaided. Family attachments are not necessary and 

 do not occur. 



That family life was from the first a fundamental 

 human institution would seem to be shown conclu- 

 sively by the existence in all human races of taboos 

 and laws directed toward the maintenance of the 

 family or of some social form to be interpreted as 

 derived from the family. Now so far as we know 

 taboos and laws are not invented to mold society into 

 new and preconceived forms, but on the contrary 

 they are designed to correct evils recognized as pos- 

 sessing disruptive or destructive tendencies which 

 from time to time appear. 



Through a natural process of development from the 

 human family arose the various human social units. 

 In highly developed social units including large 

 numbers of individuals the human social system tends 

 more or less extensively to break down. Promiscuity 

 becomes frequent, attachments between individuals of 

 opposite sex become increasingly transient, families 

 commonly consist of a single child or of two children 

 of very different ages, and in general the human so- 

 ciety seems to approach the system characteristic of 

 the apes. 



From this it has been argued that the human social 

 system was originally derived from that of the apes 



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