Substitute Parents : : Biological and Social Perspectives on Alloparenting in Human Societies / / ed. by Ruth Mace, Gillian Bentley.
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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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2000-2013 |
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| MitwirkendeR: |
Ansell, Nicola,
Belsky, Jay, Bensel, Joachim, Bentley, Gillian R., Blerk, Lorraine van, Butler, Ian, Flinn, Mark V., Gottlieb, Alma, Hayes, Loren D., Howe, David, Hrdy, Sarah B., Kramer, Karen L., Leone, David, Lycett, Emma, Mace, Ruth, Mayall, Berry, Paull, Gillian, Penn, Helen, Robinson, Margaret, Scanlan, Lesley, Sear, Rebecca, Solomon, Nancy G., Valeggia, Claudia R., |
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| Place / Publishing House: | New York ;, Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2009] ©2009 |
| Year of Publication: | 2009 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Studies of the Biosocial Society ;
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (372 p.) |
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