Grandmothers Are Changemakers
Grandmothers as changemakers BY DR. LYNSAY FARRELL Have you heard of the “grandmother hypothesis?” Humans are among only a few species whose females live well beyond their reproductive years (alongside Japanese aphids and orcas). To try to explain this, anthropologist Kristen Hawkes observed how the presence of grandmothers among hunter-gatherers in Tanzania led to decreased … Read more