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  • noun A group of people who are not one's relatives (not kin)

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Examples

  • Simulated single-sex hunter – gatherers survive, forage, reproduce, and share food with kin and nonkin in ways guided by the ethnographic literature.

    Some Links 2008

  • Food sharing with nonkin reduces the costs to kin of child rearing, but also reduces the resources recaptured by kin after an infant death, so evolved infant mortality is lower.

    Some Links 2008

  • Simulated single-sex hunter – gatherers survive, forage, reproduce, and share food with kin and nonkin in ways guided by the ethnographic literature.

    Archive 2008-06-01 2008

  • … Our tendency to favor kin over nonkin has extended to include large linguistic, national, racial, religious, and other ethnic groups.

    A Nice Day For A Forced Wedding. « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2008

  • Population-level food sharing with nonkin leads to the classic pattern of constant low mortality up to sexual maturity and no postreproductive survival.

    Some Links 2008

  • Food sharing with nonkin reduces the costs to kin of child rearing, but also reduces the resources recaptured by kin after an infant death, so evolved infant mortality is lower.

    Archive 2008-06-01 2008

  • Population-level food sharing with nonkin leads to the classic pattern of constant low mortality up to sexual maturity and no postreproductive survival.

    Archive 2008-06-01 2008

  • … Our tendency to favor kin over nonkin has extended to include large linguistic, national, racial, religious, and other ethnic groups.

    A Nice Day For A Forced Wedding. « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2008

  • Whereas only 45% of Americans discuss important matters with someone who is not a family member, internet users are 55% more likely to have a nonkin discussion partners.

    The Internet Has Not Made You a Hermit 2009

  • Ungayuk akpallugiit quaktuaktuq/niqisutaiyuq/paiyuktuq niqitatianaq inviting in guests (typically same generation non-kin) food gifts to close affines and nonkin (generally restricted to elders)

    Climate change impacts on Canadian Inuit in Nunavut 2009

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