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The grandmother hypothesis is a hypothesis to explain the existence of menopause in human life history by identifying the adaptive value of extended kin networking. It builds on the previously postulated "mother hypothesis" which states that as mothers age, the costs of reproducing become greater, and energy devoted to those activities would be better spent helping her offspring in their ...
Grandparents, individually known as grandmother and grandfather, or Grandma and Grandpa, are the parents of a person's father or mother – paternal or maternal.Every sexually reproducing living organism who is not a genetic chimera has a maximum of four genetic grandparents, eight genetic great-grandparents, sixteen genetic great-great-grandparents, thirty-two genetic great-great-great ...
She is the author of Grandmothers at Work: Juggling Families and Jobs (2014), which won the Gerontological Society of America's Kalish Book Award. [3] She is also the co-author of Grandparenting Children with Disabilities (2020) with Ynesse Abdul-Malak, co-editor of Grandparenting in the United States (2016) with Abdul-Malak, and co-editor of ...
Turning Prayer into Action TV documentary of Grandmothers dialogue with Bioneers; 13 Indigenous Grandmothers Gathering in Lame Deer, Montana, July, 2012, Part 2, video panel by Vashon Intuitive Arts participants; Markover, Fran. "First Place Poetry: "The Grandmas" ". IC View – The Magazine of Ithaca College.
Although early western cultural anthropologists and sociologists considered family and kinship to be universally associated with relations by "blood" (based on ideas common in their own cultures) later research [8] has shown that many societies instead understand family through ideas of living together, the sharing of food (e.g. milk kinship ...
Geneticists from the United States worked with the Grandmothers and were able to store blood samples from family members in the National Genetic Data Bank until the grandchildren could be located and could confirm the relatedness with an accuracy rate of 99.99%. [15] The Grandmothers fought through the court systems to annul the unlawful adoptions.
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Native Village Publications, Grandmother Margaret Behan; Sacred Studies, Grandmother's Biographies at the Wayback Machine (archived 25 December 2005). Schaefer, C. (2006) Grandmothers Council the World: wise women elders offer their vision for our planet. Trumpeter Books 978-1-59030-293-4; Six Directions, Artist Biographies