alloparent
nounEtymology
From allo- + parent.
Definitions
An adult animal or person involved in parent-like behaviour towards an individual that is…
An adult animal or person involved in parent-like behaviour towards an individual that is not their offspring.
- And Hrdy further suggests that the immersion of human babies in a pool of alloparents would have honed the mind-reading skills and empathy that are so important to our species, faster than anything else.
- In non-humans, alloparents include relatives who have kin-based incentives to help and nonrelatives who are under coercive threat or have no better option for survival.
The neighborhood
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for alloparent. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA