Allomaternal investment and relational uncertainty among Ngandu farmers of the Central African Republic

Human Nature

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 211-226

  Meehan, Courtney L ^a  

^a WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Allomothers; Alloparents; Grandparental investment; Infant care; Ngandu farmers; Relational uncertainty

Indexed keywords

EID: 50849104566     PISSN: 10456767     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12110-008-9039-z     Document Type: Article

References (41)

1. Altmann, J. (1974). Observational study of behavior: sampling methods. Behaviour, 49, 227-267.
2. Apicella, C. L., & Marlowe, F. W. (2004). Perceived mate fidelity and paternal resemblance predict men's investment in children. Evolution and Human Behavior, 24, 371-378.
3. Berry, J. W., van de Koppell, J. M. H., Senechal, C., Annis, R. C., Bahuchet, S., Cavalli-Sforza, L. L., et al. (1986). On the edge of the forest: cultural adaptation and cognitive development in Central Africa. Lisse, The Netherlands: Swets and Zeitlinger B.V.
4. Belsky, J., Rovine, M., & Taylor, D. G. (1984). The Pennsylvania infant and family development project, part III. The origins of individual differences in infant-mother attachment: maternal and infant contributions. Child Development, 62, 647-670.
5. Blalock, H. M. (1972). Social statistics (2nd ed.). New York: McGraw-Hill.
6. Blurton Jones, N., Hawkes, K., & O'Connell, J. F. (2005). Hadza fathers and grandmothers as helpers: residence data. In B. S. Hewlett, & M. E. Lamb (Eds.) Hunter-gatherer childhoods: evolutionary, developmental and cultural perspectives (pp. 77-190). Piscataway, NJ: Aldine/Transaction.
7. DeKay, W. T. (1995). Grandparental investment and the uncertainty of kinship. Paper presented at the seventh annual meeting of the Human Behavior and Evolution Society, Santa Barbara, CA.
8. El Hassan Al Awad, A. M., & Sonuga-Barke, E. J. S. (1992). Childhood problems in a Sudanese city: A comparison of extended and nuclear families. Child Development, 63, 906-914.
9. Euler, H. A., & Weitzel, B. (1996). Discriminative grandparental solicitude as reproductive strategy. Human Nature, 7, 39-60.
10. Fouts, H. N. (2002). The social and emotional context of weaning among the Bofi farmers and foragers of Central Africa. Ph.D. Dissertation, Washington State University.
11. Gaulin, S. J. C., & Schlegel, A. (1980). Paternal confidence and paternal investment: a cross-cultural test of a sociobiological hypothesis. Ethology and Sociobiology, 1, 301-309.
12. Gaulin, S. J. C., McBurney, D. H., & Brakeman-Wartell, S. L. (1997). Matrilateral biases in investment of aunts and uncles. Human Nature, 8, 139-151.
13. Hamilton, W. D. (1964). The genetic evolution of social behavior. Journal of Theoretical Biology, 7, 1-52.
14. Hawkes, K., O'Connell, J. F., & Blurton Jones, N. G. (1997). Hadza women's time allocation, offspring provisioning and the evolution of long postmenopausal life spans. Current Anthropology, 38, 551-577.
15. Hawkes, K., O'Connell, J. F., Blurton Jones, N. G., Alvares, H., & Charnov, E. L. (2000). The grandmother hypothesis and human evolution. In N. Chagnon, W. Irons, & L. Cronk (Eds.) Adaptation and human behavior: an anthropological perspective (pp. 237-258). Hawthorne, NY: Aldine de Gruyter.
16. Hewlett, B. S. (1991). Intimate fathers: the nature and context of Aka Pygmy paternal infant care. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press.
17. Hewlett, B. S. (2006). Review of "Grandmotherhood: The evolutionary significance of the second half of female life". American Journal of Human Biology, 18, 565-568.
18. Hewlett, B. S., Lamb, M. E., Leyendecker, B., & Scholmerich, A. (2000). Parental investment strategies among Aka foragers, Ngandu farmers and Euro-American urban-industrialists. In N. Chagnon, L. Cronk, & W. Irons (Eds.) Adaptation and human behavior: an anthropological perspective (pp. 155-178). Hawthorne, NY: Aldine de Gruyter.
19. Hrdy, S. B. (1999). Mother nature: a history of mothers, infants and natural selection. New York: Pantheon Books.
20. Ivey, P. K. (2000). Cooperative reproduction in the Ituri forest hunter-gatherers: Who cares for Efe infants? Current Anthropology, 41, 856-866.
21. Jeon, J., & Buss, D. M. (2007). Altruism toward cousins. Proceedings of the Royal Society, B, 274, 1181-1187.
22. King, V., & Elder Jr, G. H. (1995). American children view their grandparents: linked lives across three rural generations. Journal of Marriage and the Family 57, 164-178.
23. Kleiman, D. G., & Malcolm, J. R. (1981). The evolution of male parental investment in mammals. In D. J. Gubernick, & P. H. Klopher (Eds.) Parental care in mammals (pp. 347-388). New York: Plenum.
24. Kramer, K. L. (2005). Maya children: helpers at the farm. Cambridge, MA: Harvard Univ. Press.
25. Mace, R., & Sear, R. (2005). Are humans cooperative breeders? In E. Voland, A. Chasiotis, & W. Schiefenhovel (Eds.) Grandmotherhood: the evolutionary significance of the second half of the female life (pp. 143-160). New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers Univ. Press.
26. Marlowe, F. (1999). Showoffs or providers? The parenting effort of Hadza men. Evolution and Human Behavior, 20, 391-404.
27. Marlowe, F. (2005). Who tends Hadza children? In B. S. Hewlett, & M. E. Lamb (Eds.) Hunter-gatherer childhoods: evolutionary, developmental, and cultural perspectives (pp. 214-236). Piscataway, NJ: Aldine/Transaction.
28. McBurney, D. H., Simon, J., Gaulin, S. J. C., & Geliebter, A. (2002). Matrilateral biases in the investment of aunts and uncles: replication in a population presumed to have high paternity certainty. Human Nature, 13, 391-402.
29. Meehan, C. L. (2005a). Multiple caregiving and its affect on maternal behavior among the Aka foragers and the Ngandu farmers of Central Africa. Ph.D. Dissertation, Washington State University.
30. Meehan, C. L. (2005b). The effects of maternal residence locality on parental and alloparental caregiving among the Aka foragers of Central Africa. Human Nature, 16, 62-84.
31. Michalski, R. L., & Shackelford, T. K. (2005). Grandparental investment as a function of relational uncertainty and emotional closeness with parents. Human Nature, 16, 293-305.
32. Pashos, A. (2000). Does paternal uncertainty explain grandparental solicitude? A cross-cultural study in Greece and Germany. Evolution and Human Behavior, 24, 25-42.
33. Pope, S. K., Whiteside, L., Brooks-Gunn, J., Kelleher, K. J., Rickert, V. I., Bradley, R. H., & Casey, P. H. (1993). Low-birth-weight infants born to adolescent mothers: effects of coresidency with grandmother on child development. Journal of American Medical Association, 269, 1396-1400.
34. Sear, R., Mace, R., & MacGregor, I. A. (2000). Maternal grandmothers improve nutritional status and survival of children in rural Gambia. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, 267, 1641-1647.
35. Sear, R., Mace, R., & MacGregor, I. A. (2003). The effects of kin on female fertility in rural Gambia. Evolution and Human Behavior, 21, 97-109.
36. Small, M. F. (2001). Kids: how biology and culture shape the way we raise young children. New York: Anchor Books.
37. Trivers, R. (1972). Parental investment and sexual selection. In B. Campbell (Ed.) Sexual selection and the descent of man (pp. 139-179). Chicago: Aldine.
38. Tronick, E. Z., Morelli, G. A., & Winn, S. (1987). Multiple caretaking of Efe (Pygmy) infants. American Anthropologist, 89, 96-106.
39. Voland, E., Chasiotis, A., & Schiefendhovel, W., (Eds.) (2005). Grandmotherhood: The evolutionary significance of the second half of the female life. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers Univ. Press.
40. Weisner, T. S., & Gallimore, R. (1977). My brother's keeper: child and sibling caretaking. Current Anthropology, 18, 169-190.
41. Wilson, M. N. (1986). The black extended family: an analytical consideration. Developmental Psychology, 22, 246-258.