LEADER 03815nam 2200529 450 001 9910511697303321 005 20200131030014.0 010 $a1-62349-808-2 035 $a(CKB)4100000010123530 035 $a(OCoLC)1138572645 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse83341 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC6028196 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000010123530 100 $a20200312d2019 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|||||||nn|n 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aFathers and their children in the first three years of life $ean anthropological perspective /$fFrank L'Engle Williams 205 $aFirst edition. 210 1$aCollege Station :$cTexas A&M University Press,$d[2019] 210 4$dİ2019 215 $a1 online resource (x, 221 pages ) 225 1 $aTexas A & M University anthropology series ;$vVolume 20 311 $a1-62349-807-4 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aHow Long Have Fathers Carried and Cared for Their Infants? -- Life Cycle -- The Birth of a Child and the "Birth" of a Socially Recognized Father -- Couvade and Hormonal Correlates of Paternity -- Postnatal Infant Development -- Reproductive Careers among Forager Males -- The Duration of Father Care Estimated from Skeletal Maturation and Decline -- Evidence of Father Care in Humans and Animals -- Forager Fathers and Infants Cross-culturally -- Paternal Behavior in Nonhuman Primates and Other Animals -- Evolutionary Perspectives -- The Evolution of Carrying Behavior -- Hyper-encephalization of Neonates -- Becoming Human -- Epilogue: The Role of Father Care: Past, Present, and Future. 330 $a"Frank L'Engle Williams examines the anthropological record for evidence of the social behaviors associated with paternity, suggesting that ample evidence exists for the importance of such behaviors for infant survival. Focusing on the first three postnatal years, he considers the implications of father care--both in the fossil record and in more recent cross-cultural research--for the development of such distinctively human traits as bipedalism, extensive brain growth, language, and socialization. He also reviews the rituals by which many human societies construct and reinforce the meanings of socially recognized fatherhood--hormonal, physiological, and social changes incorporated into specific cultural manifestations of paternity. Father care was adaptive within the context of the parental pair bond, and shaped how infants developed socially and biologically. The initial imprinting of socially recognized fathers during the first few postnatal years may have sustained culturally-sanctioned indirect care such as provisioning and protection of dependents for nearly two decades thereafter. In modern humans, this three-year window is critical to father-child bonding--which differs so intrinsically from the mother-child relationship. By increasing the survival of children in the past, present, and quite possibly the future, father care may be a driving force in the biological and cultural evolution of Homo sapiens." 410 0$aTexas A & M University anthropology series ;$vVolume 20. 517 1 $aFathers and their children in the first 3 years of life 606 $aFather and infant 606 $aFatherhood$xHistory 606 $aPatriarchy 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aFather and infant. 615 0$aFatherhood$xHistory. 615 0$aPatriarchy. 676 $a155.6462 700 $aWilliams$b Frank L'Engle$f1966-$01065907 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910511697303321 996 $aFathers and their children in the first three years of life$92548249 997 $aUNINA