Social Bonding and Nurture Kinship: compatibility between cultural and biological approaches is a book on human
kinship and social behavior by Maximilian Holland, published in 2012. The work synthesizes the perspectives of
evolutionary biology,
psychology and sociocultural
anthropology towards understanding human social bonding and cooperative behavior. It presents a theoretical treatment that many consider to have resolved longstanding questions about the proper place of genetic (or 'blood') connections in human kinship and social relations, and a synthesis that
"should inspire more nuanced ventures in applying Darwinian approaches to sociocultural anthropology". The book has been called
"A landmark in the field of evolutionary biology" which
"gets to the heart of the matter concerning the contentious relationship between kinship categories, genetic relatedness and the prediction of behavior",
"places genetic determinism in the correct perspective" and serves as
"a shining example of what can be achieved when excellent scholars engage fully across disciplinary boundaries."