A01=Barry Bogin
A01=Kristen Hawkes
A01=Meredith L. Bastian
A01=Nancy Barrickman
A01=Nicholas Blurton Jones
anthropology
Author_Barry Bogin
Author_Kristen Hawkes
Author_Meredith L. Bastian
Author_Nancy Barrickman
Author_Nicholas Blurton Jones
behavioral ecology
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Category=PSAJ
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Grandmother hypothesis
human evolution
paleoanthropology
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- ISBN 9781930618725
- Weight: 765g
- Dimensions: 152 x 220mm
- Publication Date: 30 Aug 2006
- Publisher: SAR Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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Human beings may share 98 percent of their genetic makeup with their nonhuman primate cousins, but they have distinctive life histories. When and why did these uniquely human patterns evolve? To answer that question, this volume brings together specialists in hunter-gatherer behavioral ecology and demography, human growth, development, and nutrition, paleodemography, human paleontology, primatology, and the genomics of aging. The contributors identify and explain the peculiar features of human life histories, such as the rate and timing of processes that directly influence survival and reproduction. Drawing on new evidence from paleoanthropology, they question existing arguments that link humans extended childhood dependency and long post-reproductive lives to brain development, learning, and distinctively human social structures. The volume reviews alternative explanations for the distinctiveness of human life history and incorporates multiple lines of evidence in order to test them.
Kristen Hawkes,/strong>Distinguished Professor, Anthropology Department, University of Utah, USA
Nancy Barrickman, Assistant Professor, who received her PhD from Duke University, is a biological anthropologist with interests in the evolution life history, complex behavior, and encephalization.
Nancy Barrickman, Assistant Professor, who received her PhD from Duke University, is a biological anthropologist with interests in the evolution life history, complex behavior, and encephalization.
