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...might be a tasty treat, but as Hawkes and her co-workers conclude about the Hadza, "it is women's foraging, not men's hunting, that differentially affects their own families' nutritional welfare." If the grandma hypothesis holds up, we may have to conclude that the male-female pair bond was not quite so central to human survival as the evolutionary psychologists assume. The British anthropologist Chris Knight--who is, incidentally, male--suggests that alliances among females may have been more important in shaping the political economy of Paleolithic peoples...
...bond between Christina V. Farag `01 and Damaris Hernandez `01 didn't form instantly, but once it did, it stuck fast. When they met in the ninth grade, Christina confesses, "I didn't like her. I thought, `Who is this girl wearing a little hoochie shirt?'" They burst into a contagious giggle, and Damaris clarifies, "I have a round face, so she thought I was fat. I was wearing an outfit that a thin girl should wear...
...Whenever there was a problem, we'd look at ourselves," says Teresa Dovey. "We'd say, `They are reacting to what's going on around them.' True enough, there'd be something wrong in our lives." This introspection and focus on the family has forged an especially tight bond between Lindi, Ceridwen and their parents despite the distance between them...
...said, `I couldn't help you even if you wanted me to because I've never done this,'" she recalls. Nonetheless, the two women are so similar that Antoinette tells people, "If you've met me you've pretty much met my mom." Indeed, they have a uniquely close bond. "We are each other's best friends," she says. "The older I get, the more the relationship grows toward sisterhood...
...Antoinette attributes the bond between her and her mother to the fact that for a long time, it was just the two of them. For Stacy Anderson, the years alone formed the most challenging period in her experience as a parent. As a single mother, Stacy depended on welfare for assistance, and she and her daughter moved from place to place, living with family members and friends for short periods of time. "We had to rely on friends and relatives a lot. I kind of learned as I went," Stacy Anderson says...