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Grandmotherhood : the evolutionary significance of the second half of female life / edited by Eckart Voland, Athanasios Chasiotis, and Wulf Schiefenhövel.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, [2005]Copyright date: ©2005Description: vii, 343 pages ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 081353609X
  • 9780813536095
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 306.8745 22
LOC classification:
  • GN479.6 .G73 2005
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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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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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