Who keeps children alive? A review of the effects of kin on child survival

By R. Sear, Ruth Mace. 2008

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Subfields: Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Gender Studies, Sociology and Political Science

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The Ape That Thought It Was a Peacock: Does Evolutionary Psychology Exaggerate Human Sex Differences? (2013, background): “Admittedly, one study detected this “father effect” in only one third of small-scale societies (Sear & Mace, 2008).”
Infant and child death in the human environment of evolutionary adaptation (2013, background): “An increase in alloparental support can also decrease mortality levels (Hawkes, O'Connell, & Burton-Jones, 1989; Sear, Steele, McGregor, & Mace, 2002, Sear & Mace, 2008), while maternal care is perhaps the strongest predictor of infant mortality (Hrdy, 1999).”
The Evolutionary Basis of Sex Differences in Parenting and Its Relationship with Child Anxiety in Western Societies (2013, background): “However, a review of Sear and Mace (2008) on the effects of kin on child survival based on a large number of natural fertility populations showed little effect of the loss of the father on child mortality.”
Trade-offs in modern parenting: a longitudinal study of sibling competition for parental care (2009, background): “In many contexts, levels of parental and alloparental investment received during this period can literally mean the difference between life and death (Sear & Mace, 2008).”
Dying young and living fast: variation in life history across English neighborhoods (2010, background): “Grandmaternal care is widespread and consequential in human societies (Sear and Mace 2008) and has previously been shown to have positive impacts on the children of working mothers in the MCS (Hansen and Hawkes 2009).”
The benefits of social capital: close social bonds among female baboons enhance offspring survival (2009, background): “Similarly, the help that women receive from their own mothers and adult daughters (the ‘grandmother’ effect; Hawkes 2004; Lahdenpera et al. 2004; Voland et al. 2005; Sear & Mace 2008) appears to have a significant influence on offspring fitness.”
Beyond the nuclear family: an evolutionary perspective on parenting (2016, background): “But the weight of empirical evidence now demonstrates that alloparenting, of both infants and older children, is common and has beneficial effects on children [7].”