Grandmotherhood :  the evolutionary significance of the second half of female life / 
edited by Eckart Voland, Athanasios Chasiotis, and Wulf Schiefenhövel. 
 - vii, 343 pages ;  24 cm 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index. 
<br/><br/>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. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>081353609X 9780813536095 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2004021376 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Matriarchy<br/>Grandmothers<br/>Older women--Social conditions<br/>Women--Evolution<br/>Fertility, Human<br/>Human reproduction--Age factors<br/>Social evolution.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>GN479.6  / .G73 2005 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>306.8745