Despite a long history of study, consensus on a human-typical mating system remains
elusive. While a simple classification would be useful for cross-species comparisons, across …

The importance of social support for parental and child health and wellbeing is not yet
sufficiently widely recognized. The widespread myth in Western contexts that the male …

The Parental Brain: Mechanisms, Development, and Evolution presents a comprehensive
analysis of how the brain regulates parental behavior in nonhuman animals and in humans …

Women and girls cooperate with each other across many domains and at many scales.
However, much of this information is buried in the ethnographic record and has been …

Allomothering, the caregiving to offspring by adults other than the biological mother
including fathers and other group members, has characterized human societies throughout …

Alloparental care is central to human life history, which integrates exceptionally short
interbirth intervals and large birth size with an extended period of juvenile dependency and …

In hunter-gatherer societies, women's subsistence activities are crucial for food provisioning
and children's social learning but are understudied relative to men's activities. To …

Evolutionary theories of ageing point to reproduction as a significant factor to consider when
asking why ageing occurs and why there is inter-individual variation in its progression …

This review examines anthropological contributions over the past decade to the biocultural
processes and practices of lactation via the analytical pillars of colonialism, racial capitalism …

One of the defining features of human evolution is our demographic success. As of August
2019, the world's population exceeds 7.7 billion. The human capacity for population growth …