Patient Parenting: Sharing of Food Across Generations Contributes to Humans' Long Life Histories
Wednesday, February 11, 2015 - 12:30
in Mathematics & Economics
A new Santa Fe Institute study by Paul Hooper and collaborators details the intergenerational food sharing in a society of Amazon forager-farmers and shows that differences in relative need determine contributions to children from parents, grandparents, and other kin.