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

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 unifor...

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Autores principales: Chapman, Simon N., Lahdenperä, Mirkka, Pettay, Jenni E., Lynch, Robert F., Lummaa, Virpi
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Nature Publishing Group UK 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7878921/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33574488
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-83353-3