The Grandmother hypothesis and human evolution

Adaptation and Human Behavior: An Anthropological Perspective

Volumn , Issue , 2017, Pages 237-258

  Hawkes, Kristen ^a   O'connell, James F ^a   Blurton Jones, Nicholas G ^b   Alvarez, Helen ^a   Charnov, Eric L ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

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