Cooperative breeding and its significance to the demographic success of humans.

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The burden of proof for a cultural group selection account (2014, background): “72 cognitive consequences also arose when our hominin ancestors, but none of the other great apes, started to engage in cooperative breeding (Hrdy 2009; Kramer 2010).”
Plasticity in Human Life History Strategy (2012, background): “Instead, hu- mans can be described as a cooperatively breeding species in which reproducing females rely on flexible patterns of alloparental care as a fundamental component of their reproductive strategy (Hill and Hurtado 2009; Hrdy 2005, 2009; Kramer and Ellison 2010).”