like schneider, other anthropologists of kinship have largely rejected sociobiological accounts of human social patterns as being both reductionistic and also empirically incompatible with ethnographic data on human kinship. notably, marshall sahlins strongly critiqued the sociobiological approach through reviews of ethnographies in his 1976 "the use and abuse of biology" noting that for humans "the categories of 'near' and 'distant' [kin] vary independently of consanguinal distance and that these categories organize actual social practice" (p. 112).