PSYC 3100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Alloparenting, Grandmother Hypothesis, Infant Mortality
20 Mar 2013
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Outline lecture 15 parenting 1: child-rearing in pre-modern societies. Conflicts of interest between parent and offspring because they are not genetically identical. Genes make tough decisions in face of tough circumstances. Could stop investing in an offspring if the genes are faulty. Somatic effort: genes investment in self, making sure body is sufficiently large enough to survive, immune system, etc. Reproductive effort: things we need to do to attract mates, as well as parental investment (investment in one offspring that takes awat from parents" ability to invest in other offspring, including investing in future offspring) Cooperative breeding : much help from other relatives. It takes a village to raise a child : many people help to care for child (grandparents) In agricultural society: for children 0-4, taken from obsevations of all 342 members of. Mother holds most of the time (almost half) But another half of the time other people are holding the child other than the parents.
