“Darwin’s starting point, ” they write, “was the abolitionist belief in blood kinship, a ‘common descent’ ” of all human beings.
他们写到：“达尔文的出发点就是一个废奴主义者的信仰：人类起源于同一祖先。”
Kinship consisted of blood kin and affinal kin and it established and extended chiefly through marriage.
亲属关系包括血亲、姻亲，但主要是通过婚姻建立和扩大的。
This weakening of the bond of blood in the gens followed from the degeneration of the organs of kinship also in the tribe and in the entire people as a result of their conquests.
这样，如果说氏族中的血缘纽带很快就丧失了自己的意义，那么，这是氏族制度的机关在部落和整个民族内由于征服而发生蜕变的结果。
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