Does it take a family to raise a child?: Cooperative breeding and the contributions of maya siblings, parents and older adults in raising children

Substitute Parents: Biological and Social Perspectives on Alloparenting across Human Societies

Volumn 3, Issue , 2009, Pages 76-98

  Kramer, Karen L ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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