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Substitute parents : biological and social perspective on alloparenting across 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),...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Berghahn Books,
2009.
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| Colección: | Studies of the Biosocial Society ;
v. 3. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- The biological basis of alloparental behaviour in mammals / Nancy G. Solomon and Loren D. Hayes
- Family matters : kin, demography, and child health in a rural Gambian population / Rebecca Sear and Ruth Mace
- Does it take a family to raise a child? : cooperative breeding and the contributions of Maya siblings, parents and older adults in raising children / Karen L. Kramer
- Flexible caretakers : responses of toba families in transition / Claudia R. Valeggia
- Who minds the baby? Beng perspectives on mothers, neighbours, and strangers as caretakers / Alma Gottlieb
- Economic perspectives on alloparenting / Gillian Paull
- The school as parent / Berry Mayall
- The parenting and substitute parenting of young children / Helen Penn
- Adoption, adopters, and adopted children : an evolutionary perspective / David Howe
- Surrogacy : the experiences of commissioning couples and surrogate mothers / Emma Lycett
- Alloparenting in the context of AIDS in Southern Africa : complex strategies for care / Lorraine van Blerk and Nicola Ansell
- Alloparental care and the ontogeny of glucocorticoid stress response among stepchildren / Mark V. Flinn and David Leone
- Separation stress in early childhood : harmless side effect of modern care-giving practices or risk factor for development? / Joachim Bensel
- Quality, quantity, and type of childcare : effects on child development in the U.S. / Jay Belsky
- 'It feels normal that other people are split up but not your mum and dad' : divorce through the eyes of children / Margaret Robinson, Lesley Scanlan and Ian Butler.