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Why care for someone else’s child? Testing adaptive hypotheses in Agta foragers
Human children are frequently cared for by non-parental caregivers (alloparents), yet few studies have conducted systematic alternative hypothesis tests of why alloparents help. Here, we explore whether predictions from kin selection, reciprocity, learning-to-mother and costly signalling hypotheses...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6858278/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31406338 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41562-019-0679-2 |
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author | Page, Abigail E. Thomas, Matthew G. Smith, Daniel Dyble, Mark Viguier, Sylvain Chaudhary, Nikhil Salali, Gul Deniz Thompson, James Mace, Ruth Migliano, Andrea B. |
author_facet | Page, Abigail E. Thomas, Matthew G. Smith, Daniel Dyble, Mark Viguier, Sylvain Chaudhary, Nikhil Salali, Gul Deniz Thompson, James Mace, Ruth Migliano, Andrea B. |
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description | Human children are frequently cared for by non-parental caregivers (alloparents), yet few studies have conducted systematic alternative hypothesis tests of why alloparents help. Here, we explore whether predictions from kin selection, reciprocity, learning-to-mother and costly signalling hypotheses explain non-parental childcare among Agta hunter-gatherers from the Philippines. To test these hypotheses, we use high-resolution proximity data from 1,701 child-alloparent dyads. Our results indicate that reciprocity and relatedness were positively associated with number of interactions with a child (our proxy for childcare). Need appeared more influential in close kin, suggesting indirect benefits, while reciprocity proved to be a stronger influence in non-kin, pointing to direct benefits. However, despite shared genes, close and distant kin interactions were also contingent on reciprocity. Compared to other apes, humans are unique in rapidly producing energetically demanding offspring. Our results suggest that the support that mothers require is met through support based on kinship and reciprocity. |
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spelling | pubmed-68582782020-02-12 Why care for someone else’s child? Testing adaptive hypotheses in Agta foragers Page, Abigail E. Thomas, Matthew G. Smith, Daniel Dyble, Mark Viguier, Sylvain Chaudhary, Nikhil Salali, Gul Deniz Thompson, James Mace, Ruth Migliano, Andrea B. Nat Hum Behav Article Human children are frequently cared for by non-parental caregivers (alloparents), yet few studies have conducted systematic alternative hypothesis tests of why alloparents help. Here, we explore whether predictions from kin selection, reciprocity, learning-to-mother and costly signalling hypotheses explain non-parental childcare among Agta hunter-gatherers from the Philippines. To test these hypotheses, we use high-resolution proximity data from 1,701 child-alloparent dyads. Our results indicate that reciprocity and relatedness were positively associated with number of interactions with a child (our proxy for childcare). Need appeared more influential in close kin, suggesting indirect benefits, while reciprocity proved to be a stronger influence in non-kin, pointing to direct benefits. However, despite shared genes, close and distant kin interactions were also contingent on reciprocity. Compared to other apes, humans are unique in rapidly producing energetically demanding offspring. Our results suggest that the support that mothers require is met through support based on kinship and reciprocity. 2019-07-08 2019-08-12 /pmc/articles/PMC6858278/ /pubmed/31406338 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41562-019-0679-2 Text en http://www.nature.com/authors/editorial_policies/license.html#terms Users may view, print, copy, and download text and data-mine the content in such documents, for the purposes of academic research, subject always to the full Conditions of use:http://www.nature.com/authors/editorial_policies/license.html#terms |
spellingShingle | Article Page, Abigail E. Thomas, Matthew G. Smith, Daniel Dyble, Mark Viguier, Sylvain Chaudhary, Nikhil Salali, Gul Deniz Thompson, James Mace, Ruth Migliano, Andrea B. Why care for someone else’s child? Testing adaptive hypotheses in Agta foragers |
title | Why care for someone else’s child? Testing adaptive hypotheses in Agta foragers |
title_full | Why care for someone else’s child? Testing adaptive hypotheses in Agta foragers |
title_fullStr | Why care for someone else’s child? Testing adaptive hypotheses in Agta foragers |
title_full_unstemmed | Why care for someone else’s child? Testing adaptive hypotheses in Agta foragers |
title_short | Why care for someone else’s child? Testing adaptive hypotheses in Agta foragers |
title_sort | why care for someone else’s child? testing adaptive hypotheses in agta foragers |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6858278/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31406338 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41562-019-0679-2 |
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