Posted on 03/18/2010 3:12:19 PM PDT by James C. Bennett
Ever wondered why our early ancestors were able to have so many kids? Well, it was because most of them were apparently active fathers, claim researchers.
Northwestern University researcher Lee T. Gettler suggests in a new anthropological model of human evolution that the fathers among our earliest human ancestors may have helped jumpstart human evolution by helping females out with their children.
Lee believes that the same paternal investment pattern resembles the kind of hands-on parenting many dads still display.
"Other men might have been highly involved with direct care, engaging in behaviors not unlike what involved fathers do today," Gettler, a doctoral candidate at Northwestern , told Discovery News .
The study was published in the February issue of the journal American Anthropologist .
According to the expert, dads in early human species would have aided in carrying children, as well as in their bathing, feeding, playing and teaching them the lessons of prehistoric life.
They obviously haven’t looked at the Child Support Enforcement website for American states.
I care and I’m active. I have five kids and four grandkids. I was around to raise them all and am still here if they need me.
People were more practical and competent in the old days, so it was worth it to have more of them around.
But these days most people are fat, stupid and lazy.
... sensitive Stone Age guys...
The idea that a child is the gain of the mother and not the father is a throughly disgusting creation of our degenerate age.
Good observation.
You’re right.
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