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SUBMITTER: Chapman SN
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7878921 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Feb
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Chapman Simon N SN Lahdenperä Mirkka M Pettay Jenni E JE Lynch Robert F RF Lummaa Virpi V
Scientific reports 20210211 1
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 hardly uniform, and insight into the importance of grandmothering in human evolution depends on understanding the contextual expression of helping benefits. Here, we use an eighteenth-nineteenth century pre-indust ...[more]