| Description |
vii, 343 pages ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Primate predispositions for human grandmaternal behavior / Andreas Paul -- Menopause: adaptation and epiphenomenon / Jocelyn Scott Peccei -- Human longevity and reproduction: an evolutionary perspective / Natalia S. Gavrilova, Leonid A. Gavrilov -- Grandmothers, politics, and getting back to science / Chris Knight, Camilla Power -- Human female longevity: how important is being a grandmother? / Cheryl Sorenson Jamison, Paul L. Jamison, Laurel L. Cornell -- Human age structures, paleodemography, and the grandmother hypothesis / Kristen Hawkes, Nicholas Blurton Jones -- Are humans cooperative breeders? / Ruth Mace, Rebecca Sear -- Hadza grandmothers as helpers: residence data / Nicholas Blurton Jones, Kristen Hawkes, James O'Connell -- The role of maternal grandmothers in Trobriand adoptions / Wulf Schiefenhövel, Andreas Grabolle -- Kinship organization and the impact of grandmothers on reproductive success among matrilineal Kuasi and patrilineal Bengali of Northeast India / Donna L. Leonetti, ...[et al.] -- The helping and the helpful grandmother: the role of maternal and paternal grandmothers in child mortality in the seventeenth and eighteenth-century population of French settlers in Québec, Canada / Jan Beise -- "The husband's mother is the devil in house": data on the impact of the mother-in-law on stillbirth mortality in historical Krummhörn (1750-1874) and some thoughts on the evolution of postgenerative female life / Eckart Voland, Jan Beise -- Exploring the variation in intergenerational relationships among Germans and Turkish immigrants: an evolutionary perspective of behavior in a modern social setting / Akiko Nosaka, Athanasios Chasiotis -- Variability of grandmothers' roles / Axel Schölmerich, ...[et al.] -- Cooperative breeders with an ace in the hole / Sarah Blaffer Hrdy. |
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Matriarchy.
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Matriarchy. |
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Grandmothers.
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Grandmothers. |
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Older women -- Social conditions.
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Older women. |
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Social conditions. |
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Women -- Evolution.
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Women -- Evolution. |
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Fertility, Human.
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Fertility, Human. |
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Human reproduction -- Age factors.
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Human reproduction -- Age factors. |
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Social evolution.
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Social evolution. |
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Women. |
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Womyn. |
| Added Author |
Voland, Eckart, 1949-
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Chasiotis, Athanasios.
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Schiefenhövel, Wulf, 1943-
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| ISBN |
081353609X hardcover alkaline paper |
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