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Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: http://hdl.handle.net/11375/7029
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dc.contributor.advisorDaly, Martinen_US
dc.contributor.authorDavis, Nerissa Jenniferen_US
dc.date.accessioned2014-06-18T16:37:49Z-
dc.date.available2014-06-18T16:37:49Z-
dc.date.created2010-07-02en_US
dc.date.issued1996-08en_US
dc.identifier.otheropendissertations/2327en_US
dc.identifier.other3403en_US
dc.identifier.other1380611en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11375/7029-
dc.description.abstract<p>This thesis presents research on the nature of human kinship interactions, with special emphasis on birth order and its relationship to discriminative parental treatment of offspring and the development of within family differences. These issues are looked at through the lens of evolutionary psychology, a brief explanation of which is given in chapter 1. Chapter 2 is a theoretical and empirical critique of the applicability of a recent theoretical analysis of family relations in the animal kingdom in general to the specific case of human family relations. Chapters 3 and 4 focus specifically on birth order and parent-offspring relations, and their potential relationship to important life decisions, such as the age at which children leave home, and the amount of education they receive, among other things. Chapter 5 presents work on birth order, or rather, hatch order, and parent-offspring and sibling-sibling relations in a non-human animal, the herring gull, and serves to highlight the close integration of theory that exists between evolutionary psychology and animal behavior. The human and herring gull work represented here are both predicated on the same theoretical groundwork. The different ways in which these influences are played out is a function of the different ecology of these two species.</p>en_US
dc.subjectPsychologyen_US
dc.subjectPsychologyen_US
dc.titleParental Treatment And Offspring Differentiation: An Evolutionary Analysisen_US
dc.typethesisen_US
dc.contributor.departmentPsychologyen_US
dc.description.degreeDoctor of Philosophy (PhD)en_US
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