A feminist and evolutionary biologist looks at women
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8313586 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jane B Lancaster (University of New Mexico, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1991 |
| Volume | 34 |
| Issue | S13 |
| Pages | 1-11 |
| Publication date | 1991-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | American Journal of Physical Anthropology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0002-9483 • E-ISSN: 1096-8644 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1002/ajpa.1330340603 |
| OpenAlex | W2077456972 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 27 |
| References cited | 29 |
A biosocial perspective on women must emphasize the context-dependent nature of both their biological and their behavioral responses to the demands of reproduction. The evolutionary history of human female reproductive strategies has increased phenotypic and behavioral plasticity in ways that will optimize a woman's ability to access the resources necessary to produce and rear her children. These include a reproductive biology closely linked to shifts in social and physical resources, permitting an individual woman to adjust her investment at many points along the path of offspring development, and a behavioral pattern of family formation that optimizes women's access to resources through the most likely and predictable social networks. Compared to the reproductive strategies of female nonhuman primates, women are confronted with a series of adaptations peculiar to our species: (1) a high commitment to the rearing of multiple, nutritionally dependent young of differing ages, (2) an unending tradeoff between two often conflicting demands of production and reproduction, and (3) a bargain often struck with males for assistance in rearing young in exchange for confidence in paternity
Biology · Biosocial theory · Context (archaeology) · Life history · Life history theory · Offspring · Perspective (graphical) · Reproduction · Computer Science · Ecology · Evolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior · Neuroendocrine regulation and behavior · Primate Behavior and Ecology · Psychology · Social Psychology
Female Choice in the Context of Donor Insemination
The Evolutionary History of Human Parental Investment in Relation to Population Growth and Social Stratification
Nonmarital First Births and Women’s Life Histories
A Norwegian note on “sperm donor selection and the psychology of female mate choice”
Sex differences in children's investment in same-sex peers
My studies of primates
Proceedings of the 95th Business Meeting of the American Association of Biological Anthropologists
What, if anything, is a Darwinian anthropology
Bioarchaeological Approaches to the Gendered Body
Methods without Meaning
In Memoriam Jane B. Lancaster (1935–2025), a Pioneer in Anthropology
Women's Sexual Strategies
II. On Comparing Women and Men
The Body as Situation
Feminism and the Politics of Reproductive Strategies
Women, behavior, and evolution
Context‐specific mate choice criteria
What, if anything, is a Darwinian anthropology
Children's Help and the Pace of Reproduction
Are Mating Strategies and Mating Tactics Independent Constructs
The evolution of women
Reproductive Biology, Technology, and Gender Inequality
Women, resources, and dispersal in nineteenth-century Sweden
Life Expectancy and the Timing of Life History Events in Developing Countries
The Social Strategy Game
"The Lust to Kill" and the Arnhem Land Sorcerer
Bodyscapes, Biology, and Heteronormativity
Human reproductive behaviour
The Kung San
How humans adapt
Finite Social Space, Evolutionary Pathways, and Reconstructing Hominid Behavior
An Ecological Model of Female-Bonded Primate Groups
The Origin of Man
Parental Investment and Sexual Selection
Male sexual jealousy
Crime and justice
Gender and Anthropology
The Explanation of Family Violence
The effects of race, residence, and prenatal care on the relationship of maternal age to neonatal mortality
A N ote on t he D ivision of L abor by S ex 1
Teenage childbearing as an alternative life-course strategy in multigeneration black families
Trade-Offs between female food acquisition and child care among hiwi and ache foragers
Male aggression against women
On Teenage Childbearing and Neonatal Mortality in the United States
The Argument from Animals to Men
The ecology of mating systems in hypergynous dowry societies
On the evolution of Ape Social Systems
Parental Investment and Elite Family Structure in Preindustrial States
| Unique citing works | 27 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,82 |
| Citation span | 1993 - 2026 (34) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 19 |