A sojourn in anthropology... Matrimony is so much a part of our lives that few pause to wonder about how it began, or why, or when. In the early days of anthropology these were very hot questions, resulting in a welter of theories, often contradicting one another. By the early 20th century, however, the critics found serious flaws in all of the old theories, and decided that the question of the origin of matrimony was unsolvable. More recently, those who call themselves "evolutionary psychologists" (or "sociobiologists") have taken up the issue anew, unencumbered by knowledge of anthropology. We find that those theories fare no better. This book presents, at long last, a theory that fits so many facts so well that the author is convinced that it is the one-and-only answer to the question of the origin or matrimony-the why, the when, and the how of it. Of course, it remains to be seen if the jury of readers will agree. Whatever the outcome, at the very least, we're sure the reader will agree that the origin of matrimony is a very interesting matter. Lawrence L. Horstman is a biomedical researcher at the University of Miami School of Medicine, and has written or coauthored over fifty peer-reviewed publications in the field of hematology in the last twenty years. Throughout his adult life, Horstman has been seeking to understand man's place in nature, the source of the mind, the essence of language, and the basis of evolution, biological and cultural. The four books in this series connect those matters under a single unifying hypothesis.