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Title Grandmotherhood : the evolutionary significance of the second half of female life / edited by Eckart Voland, Athanasios Chasiotis, and Wulf Schienfenhövel.

Publication Info. New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, 2014.

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 University of Saint Joseph: Pope Pius XII Library - Standard Shelving Location  306.8745 G754G    Check Shelf
Description vii, 343 pages ; 24 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents 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.
Summary "Bringing together theoretical and empirical work by internationally recognized scholars in anthropology, psychology, ethnography, and the social sciences, Grandmotherhood explores the evolutionary purpose and possibilities of female post-generative life. Students and scholars of human evolution, anthropology, and even gerontology will look to this volume as a major contribution to the current literature in evolutionary studies."--BOOK JACKET.
Subject Matriarchy.
Grandmothers.
Older women -- Social conditions.
Women -- Evolution.
Fertility, Human.
Human reproduction -- Age factors.
Social evolution.
Added Author Voland, Eckart, 1949-
Chasiotis, Athanasios.
Schiefenhövel, Wulf, 1943-
ISBN 0813571413
9780813571416
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