Note 466 — Chapter III · THEORY OF THE ORIGINAL PAIRING OR MONOGAMOUS FAMILY

See Starcke's masterly summary in chapter vii, "Marriage and its Development," who reaches the conclusion presented in the text. Westermarck, chaps. xxi, xxii, xxiv, obtains practically the same result. Compare also Wake, op. cit., chap. xii, who holds that group-marriage in the Australian and Punaluan forms is the original type of marriage. Then follow polyandry and polygyny; and these are in turn superseded by monogamy. Hellwald, Die mensch. Familie, 389, declares that polyandry and polygyny are the rule, and in this sense more "natural" than monogamy.