Substitute parents: biological and social perspectives on alloparenting in human societies
Éditeur :
Berghahn Books
ISBN :
9781845451066
Date de publication :
1 sept. 2009
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
Grande Bretagne
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