Discriminative grandparental solicitude as reproductive strategy

Human Nature

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 39-59

  Euler, Harald A ^a   Weitzel, Barbara ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KASSEL   (Germany)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Grandparental caregiving; Grandparental solicitude; Kin recognition; Paternity confidence; Phenotypic resemblance; Reproductive strategy; Trivers Willard hypothesis

Indexed keywords

EID: 0030442477     PISSN: 10456767     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/bf02733489     Document Type: Article

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