Cooperative breeding and its significance to the demographic success of humans

Annual Review of Anthropology

Volumn 39, Issue , 2010, Pages 417-436

  Kramer, Karen L ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

allocare; demography; intergenerational transfers; life history

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOLOGY; CHILD CARE; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; FERTILITY; LIFE HISTORY;

EID: 77958019006     PISSN: 00846570     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.anthro.012809.105054     Document Type: Article

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