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CARTA: Biocultural Reproduction: The Human Style of Hyper-cooperation with Barry Bogin

CARTA: Biocultural Reproduction: The Human Style of Hyper-cooperation with Barry Bogin

Update: 2025-06-23
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The essence of Being Human is the practice of Biocultural Reproduction (BCR). BCR is defined as the set of marriage and kinship based rules for extra-maternal cooperation in the production, feeding, and care of offspring. Human evolution theory needs to explain how people successfully combined a vastly extended period of offspring dependency and delayed reproduction with helpless newborns — with large heads and much body fat (even with problems giving birth) -- a short duration of breast-feeding, an adolescent growth spurt, and vigorous post-menopause valuable grandmothers. Are these characteristics a package or a mosaic? Series: "CARTA - Center for Academic Research and Training in Anthropogeny" [Humanities] [Science] [Show ID: 40697]
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CARTA: Biocultural Reproduction: The Human Style of Hyper-cooperation with Barry Bogin

CARTA: Biocultural Reproduction: The Human Style of Hyper-cooperation with Barry Bogin

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