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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| Language: | English |
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New York :
Berghahn Books, Inc.,
2009.
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| Series: | Studies of the Biosocial Society, 3
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