Re: Evolutionary Origins of Female Longevity -- New Book

Interesting!

Table of Contents for this new book is already available at the Library
of Congress:

http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0422/2004021376.html

Here it is:

Introduction
Grandmotherhood: A Short Overview of Three Fields of Research on the
Evolutionary Significance of Postgenerative Female Life
Eckart Voland, Athanasios Chasiotis, and Wulf Schiefenhovel

Part I
Life History: The Evolutionary Route to Grandmothers

Chapter 1
Primate Predispositions for Human Grandmaternal Behavior
Andreas Paul

Chapter 2
Menopause: Adaptation and Epiphenomenon
Jocelyn Scott Peccei

Chapter 3
Human Longevity and Reproduction: An Evolutionary Perspective
Natalia S. Gavrilova and Leonid A. Gavrilov

Chapter 4
Grandmothers, Politics, and Getting Back to Science
Chris Knight and Camilla Power

Chapter 5
Human Female Longevity: How Important is Being a Grandmother?
Cheryl Sorenson Jamison, Paul L. Jamison, and Laurel L. Cornell

Chapter 6
Human Age Structures, Paleodemography, and the Grandmother Hypothesis
Kristen Hawkes and Nicholas Blurton Jones

Part II
Behavior: Modern Outcomes of Past Adaptations

Chapter 7
Are Humans Communal Breeders?
Ruth Mace and Rebecca Sear

Chapter 8
Hadza Grandmothers as Helpers: Residence Data
Nicholas Blurton Jones, Kristen Hawkes, and James O'Connell

Chapter 9
The Role of Material Grandmothers in Trobriand Adoptions
Wulf Schiefenhovel and Andreas Grabolle

Chapter 10
Kinship Organization and Grandmother's Impact on Reproductive Success
among the Matrilineal Khasi and Patrilineal Bengali of N.E. India
Donna L. Leonetti, Dilip C. Nath, Natabar S. Hemam, and Dawn B. Neill

Chapter 11
The Helping and the Helpful Grandmother: The Role of Maternal and
Paternal Grandmothers in Child Mortality in the Seventeenth and
Eighteenth Century Population of French Settlers in Quebec, Canada
Jan Beise

Chapter 12
"The Husband's Mother Is the Devil in House": Data on the Impact of the
Mother-in-Law on Stillbirth Mortality in Historical Krummhorn (C18-C19)
and Some Thoughts on the Evolution of Postgenerative Female Life
Eckart Voland and Jan Beise

Chapter 13
Exploring the Variation in Inter-generational Relationships among
Germans and Turkish Immigrants: An Evolutionary Perspective of Behavior
in a Modern Social Setting
Akiko Nosaka and Athanasios Chasiotis

Chapter 14
Variability of the Role of Grandmothers
Axel Scholmerich, Birgit Leyendecker, Banu Citlak-Kisagun, Amy Miller,
and Robin Harwood

Part III
Synthesis: The Evolutionary Significance of Grandmothers

Chapter 15
Cooperative Breeders with an Ace in the Hole
Sarah Blaffer Hrdy

Contributors

Index

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Hope it helps

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g...@xxxxxxx wrote:

> Greetings,
>
> Here is a new book on Evolutionary origins of Female Longevity:
>
> Grandmotherhood
> The Evolutionary Significance of the Second Half of Female Life
> Edited By Eckart Voland, Athanasios Chasiotis, Wulf Schiefenhoevel
> Rutgers University Press
>
> Darwinian theory holds that a successful life is measured in terms
of
> reproduction. How is it, then, that a woman's lifespan can greatly
> exceed her childbearing and childrearing years? Is this phenomenon
> simply a byproduct of improved standards of living, or do older
> women-grandmothers in particular-play a measurable role in increasing
> their family members' biological success? Until now, these
questions
> have not been examined in a thorough and comprehensive manner.
> Bringing together theoretical and empirical work by internationally
> recognized scholars in anthropology, psychology, ethnography, and the
> social sciences, "Grandmotherhood" explores the evolutionary purpose
> and possibilities of female post-generative life.
>
> Students and scholars of human evolution, anthropology, and even
> gerontology will look to this volume as a major contribution to the
> current literature in evolutionary studies.
>
> August 2005, 304 pages
> ISBN 0-8135-3609-X, Cloth $75.00
> Order by phone: toll free (800) 446-9323
> Order by email: bksales(at)rci.rutgers.edu
> or visit
> http://rutgerspress.rutgers.edu/acatalog/__Grandmotherhood_2254.html
>
> Advance book pre-orders are accepted at:
> http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/081353609X

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