Children's Help and the Pace of Reproduction: Cooperative Breeding in Humans

By K. Kramer. 2005

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Subfields: Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Social Psychology, Sociology and Political Science

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Precocious Prosociality: Why Do Young Children Help? (2015, background): “Therefore, juveniles contribute long before they begin to create a surplus during adolescence (35).”
Attachment and Culture (2013, background): “…siblings, other relatives) by distributing the cost of raising offspring and thereby still being able to spend a considerable amount of time on domestic activities, such as hunting/gathering, or working in the fields, rather than on child care (Kramer, 2005; for a summary, see Otto, 2008).”
Mind the Gap: Cooperative Breeding and the Evolution of Our Unique Features (2010, background): “Third, among foragers and non-foragers, older siblings also play a major role in childcare and babysitting (Hawkes et al. 1995; Kramer 2005).”
The juvenile transition: A developmental switch point in human life history (2009, unknown): “man life history has become a major enterprise for evolutionary anthropologists, one that involves diverse lines of inquiry ranging from hunter-gatherer studies (e.g., Bock, 2002; Hawkes, O’Connell & Blurton-Jones, 1995; Kramer, 2005) to comparative analysis (e.”
The Bioarchaeological Investigation of Childhood and Social Age: Problems and Prospects (2008, background): “Based on evidence from ethnographic works, historical records and archaeological evidence, it has been argued that children were major contributors to economic production in prehistoric societies (Cain 1977; Kamp 2001a, b, 2002, Kamp et al. 1999; Kramer 2005a; Nag et al. 1978; Ritchie and Ritchie 19”
The Adaptive Calibration Model of stress responsivity (2010, unknown): “…or young adulthood (Lancaster and Kaplan, 2009); however, a typical 7-year-old child has some chances of surviving on his/her own if forced to do so, and is able to make a significant contribution to the household economy when ecological conditions allow (Bogin, 1999; Kramer, 2002, 2005).”
Who keeps children alive? A review of the effects of kin on child survival (2008, background): “our species, and the economic contributions of olde r children may also help to underwrite the 50 costs of large family size (Kramer, 2005; Lee & Kra mer, 2002).”