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Grandmaternal childcare and kinship laterality. Is rural Greece exceptional?

Abstract

Grandmothers provide more childcare for their daughters' children than for those of their sons, almost everywhere. Exceptions occur where virilocal (patrilocal) postmarital residence makes the children of sons more accessible, but even under virilocality, preferential care of daughters' children, net of the effects of proximity, is often demonstrable. A unique counter-example has been reported by Pashos (2000, Evolution & Human Behavior, 21, …

Authors

Daly M; Perry G

Journal

Evolution and Human Behavior, Vol. 40, No. 4, pp. 385–394

Publisher

Elsevier

Publication Date

July 2019

DOI

10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2019.04.004

ISSN

1090-5138