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Alice S. Rossi
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behavioral ecology
Behavioral Individuality
biosocial influences on family dynamics
Biosocial Perspective
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Chet S. Lancaster
cross-cultural parenting research
Data Sets
Dennis P. Hogan
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Eric L. Charnov
evolutionary developmental psychology
Expectable Lifetime Costs
Family Formation Strategies
Gunhild O. Hagestad
Health Examination Survey
Henry Harpending
human reproductive strategies
Inclusive Fitness
Interbirth Interval
intergenerational relationships
Jacqueline V. Lerner
James A. Levine
James J. Mckenna
Jane B. Lancaster
Jeanne Altmann
Joseph H. Pleck
Judith Blake
Large Families
life history analysis
Lonnie R. Sherrod
Maris A. Vinovskis
Merry White
Michael E. Lamb
Michael Leon
Nonhuman Primates
Parental Investment
Parental Investment Patterns
Parental Investment Strategies
Parental Investment Theory
Patas Monkey
Paternal Half Sibs
Paternal Involvement
Patricia Draper
Person Context Relations
Postpartum Amenorrhea
Richard M. Lerner
Robert A. Levine
Sibling Care
Sibling Caretaking
Substitute Care Givers
Thomas S. Weisner
Vern L. Bengtson
Vice Versa
WISC Score
Young Men
Product details
- ISBN 9780202303321
- Weight: 839g
- Dimensions: 152 x 235mm
- Publication Date: 30 Dec 1987
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Inc
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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Research on parenting through the life course has developed around two separate approaches. Evolutionary biology provides fresh perspectives from life history theory using behavioral ecology and parental investment theory. At the same time, the social and behavioral sciences integrates research from long-term studies of individual development and from the collection of life histories.This path-breaking book advances evolutionary, life history research by integrating perspectives of these two approaches into a biosocial science of the life course. It examines parenthood as a commitment extending throughout life and focuses on the impact on parental and child behavior of changes in the timing, distribution, and intensity of parental investment. This perspective is particularly appropriate for research on parenting since the family is the universal human institution within which the bearing and rearing of children has been based and which transmits traditions, beliefs, and values to the young.
