Substitute Parents : Biological and Social Perspectives on Alloparenting in Human Societies.

From a comparative perspective, human life histories are unique and raising offspring is unusually costly: humans have relatively short birth intervals compared to other apes, childhood is long, mothers care simultaneously for many dependent children (other apes raise one offspring at a time), infan...

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Main Author: Bentley, Gillian
Other Authors: Mace, Ruth
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Berghahn Books, Inc., 2009.
Series:Studies of the Biosocial Society, 3
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