Religiosity is associated with greater size, kin density, and geographic dispersal of women's social networks in Bangladesh

R Lynch, S Schaffnit, R Sear, R Sosis, J Shaver… - Scientific reports, 2022 - nature.com
Human social relationships, often grounded in kinship, are being fundamentally altered by
globalization as integration into geographically distant markets disrupts traditional kin based …

[HTML][HTML] Grandpaternal care and child survival in a pastoralist society in western China

J Du, AE Page, R Mace - Evolution and human behavior, 2022 - Elsevier
Human parents require significant support to raise multiple, highly dependent offspring.
Grandmothers are often highlighted as key allomothers (non-maternal caregivers) and their …

Cost structures and socioecological conditions impact the fitness outcomes of human alloparental care in agent-based model simulations

EM Weitzel, KM Wilson, L Spake, SB Schaffnit… - Evolution and Human …, 2024 - Elsevier
Alloparental care—care provided to children who are not one's offspring—is ubiquitous
across human populations. Empirical research reveals socioecological variation in who …

Sedentarisation and maternal childcare networks: role of risk, gender and demography

Women cooperate over multiple domains and while research from western contexts portrays
women's networks as limited in size and breadth, women receive help, particularly with …

Early Life Determinants of the Infant Microbiome: Social Environments Get “under and on the Skin”

MB Manus - 2022 - search.proquest.com
A central theme in biological anthropology is investigating how the human body responds to
interactions with the surrounding environment. The microbiome—the collection of …