Substitute Parents: Biological and Social Perspectives on Alloparenting in Human Societies: 3 (Studies of the Biosocial Society, 3)

by Gillian Bentley (Editor), Ruth Mace (Editor)

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  2009

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  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