Maternal Time Allocation in Two Cooperative Childrearing Societies

Human Nature

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 375-393

  Meehan, Courtney L ^a  

^a WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Allomothers; Cooperative breeding; Farmers; Hunter gatherers; Time allocation

Indexed keywords

EID: 76049123995     PISSN: 10456767     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12110-009-9076-2     Document Type: Article

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