Substitute Parents
Biological and Social Perspectives on Alloparenting in Human Societies
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EN
Berghahn Books |
2009
ISBN13: 9781845451066
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Studies of the BioSocial Society
Levertijd ongeveer 16 werkdagen
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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), infant mortality is high in natural fertility/mortality