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- But it is only likely to occur in primate species where females do not form hierarchies or compete with each other.
Macaques and baboons for example, are more likely to kidnap each other’s infants than help another mother give birth.
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I was reading a bit about this subject recently. This article extrapolates the motherhood/parenthood/community breeding and rearing hierarchy into humans as a study of anthropology. Really interesting stuff.
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I'm unexpecetedly drunk, because playoff baseball, but this strikes me as being similar to the non-nuclear families of the 19th century and so on -- lot of people think our child-raising problems have to do with the narrowness and fraigility of the nuclear family strucutre.