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Substitute Parents: Biological and Social Perspectives on Alloparenting in Human Societies - Studies of the BioSocial Society
Substitute Parents: Biological and Social Perspectives on Alloparenting in Human Societies - Studies of the BioSocial Society
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
| Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
| Released | September 1, 2009 |
| ISBN13 | 9781845451066 |
| Publishers | Berghahn Books |
| Pages | 372 |
| Dimensions | 159 × 235 × 24 mm · 632 g |
| Language | English |
| Editor | Bentley, Gillian |
| Editor | Mace, Ruth |