Did Grandmothers Enhance Reproductive Success in Historic Populations? : Testing Evolutionary Theories on Historical Demographic Data in Scandinavia and North America
Human reproductive success requires both producing children and making investments in the development of offspring. To a large extent these investments are made by the parents of the child, but researchers are now looking beyond the nuclear family to understand how extended kin, notably grandmothers, enhance reproductive success by making transfers to progeny of different kinds. The extent to whic
