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Research on parenting through the life course has developed around
two separate approaches. Evolutionary biology provides fresh
perspectives from life history theory using behavioral ecology and
parental investment theory. At the same time, the social and
behavioral sciences integrates research from long-term studies of
individual development and from the collection of life histories.
This path-breaking book advances evolutionary, life history
research by integrating perspectives of these two approaches into a
biosocial science of the life course. It examines parenthood as a
commitment extending throughout life and focuses on the impact on
parental and child behavior of changes in the timing, distribution,
and intensity of parental investment. This perspective is
particularly appropriate for research on parenting since the family
is the universal human institution within which the bearing and
rearing of children has been based and which transmits traditions,
beliefs, and values to the young.
When it was originally released in 1980, Jeanne Altmann's book
transformed the study of maternal primate relationships by focusing
on motherhood and infancy within a complex ecological and
sociological context. Available again with a new foreword by the
author, Baboon Mothers and Infants is a classic book that has been,
in its own right, a mother to a generation of influential research
and will no doubt provide further inspiration.
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