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While the Banzers may think of the work Matthew's grandmother and great-aunts do as mere baby-sitting, anthropologists know it is part of a far more primal practice called alloparenting. In all manner of animals, including bees, elephants, lions, lemurs, bats and birds, creatures with no parental investment...
As procreative strategies go, this seems an odd one. If you want to devote yourself exclusively to parenting, it's better to take your reproductive chips off the table after having one child so you can maximize the resources you have to do the job. If you want a multichild...
Gienapp says the job can be hardship. Many professors devote their summers to intense research in preparation for publications.
There are fewer extracurricular activities, for instance, so many students devote themselves completely to the one course that they are taking.
"I think [Harvard] needs to devote a lot more to one of their best resources," Schroeder says.