Grandmotherhood: The Evolutionary Significance of the Second Half of Female Life
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.
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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.
Introduction : grandmotherhood : a short overview of three fields of research on the evolutionary significance of postgenerative female life1Ch. 1Primate predispositions for human grandmaternal behavior21Ch. 2Menopause : adaptation and epiphenomenon38Ch. 3Human longevity and reproduction : an evolutionary perspective59Ch. 4Grandmothers, politics, and getting back to science81Ch. 5Human female longevity : how important is being a grandmother?99Ch. 6Human age structures, paleodemography, and the grandmother hypothesis118Ch. 7Are humans cooperative breeders?143Ch. 8Hadza grandmothers as helpers : residence data160Ch. 9The role of maternal grandmothers in Trobriand adoptions177Ch. 10Kinship organization and the impact of grandmothers on reproductive success among the matrilineal Khasi and patrilineal Bengali of Northeast India194Ch. 11The 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 Quebec, Canada215Ch. 12"The husband's mother is the devil in house" : data on the impact of the mother-in-law on stillbirth mortality in historical Krummhorn (1750-1874) and some thoughts on the evolution of postgenerative female life239Ch. 13Exploring the variation in intergenerational relationships among Germans and Turkish immigrants : an evolutionary perspective of behavior in a modern social setting256Ch. 14Variability of grandmothers' roles277Ch. 15Cooperative breeders with an ace in the hole295
