• Do mothers also "manipulate" grandparental care? 

      Busch, Mari Veierud; Olaisen, Sandra; Bruksås, Ina Jeanette; Folstad, Ivar (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2018-11-15)
      Paternity uncertainty has proven to be a robust ultimate hypothesis for predicting the higher investment in grandchildren observed among maternal grandparents compared to that of the paternal grandparents. Yet the proximate mechanisms for generating such preferred biases in grandparental investment remain unclear. Here we address two different questions for better understanding the proximate mechanisms ...
    • Do mothers manipulate grandparental care? 

      Bruksås, Ina Jeanette (Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2013-05-15)
      Many studies have been done on grandparental investment, asking why grandparents distribute their resources skewered. Maternal grandmothers invest most, and parental grandfathers invest least in their grandchildren. Here resemblance is used as an indicator of kin, asking if grandparents feel their grandchildren resemble them and looking at how they invest in these grandchildren. Daughters do not ...