Offspring fertility and grandchild survival enhanced by maternal grandmothers in a pre-industrial human society

Abstract Help is directed towards kin in many cooperative species, but its nature and intensity can vary by context. Humans are one of few species in which grandmothers invest in grandchildren, and this may have served as an important driver of our unusual life history. But helping behaviour is hard...

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Auteurs principaux: Simon N. Chapman, Mirkka Lahdenperä, Jenni E. Pettay, Robert F. Lynch, Virpi Lummaa
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Langue:EN
Publié: Nature Portfolio 2021
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Accès en ligne:https://doaj.org/article/2f39e2180ebd4d71825c6e66ac572f2e
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