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----------------------------------------------- Who Needs a Grandpa? The powerful helping hand of grandmothers has shaped human lifespan, but grandfathers were too busy scoring chicks. by, Anne Holden 02 August 2007 The immense benefits of having a helpful grandmother has been touted as the reason that women live so long past the age of reproduction. But where, exactly, does that leave grandfathers? Off playing shuffleboard, apparently. Grandmothers are a powerful evolutionary force. Studies of present day communities in Africa and historical communities in Finland and Quebec have found that having a living grandmother around to protect, care and collect food for grandchildren can significantly increase the survival of grandchildren and, subsequently the number of grandchildren that a woman leaves behind.  Anthropologists suggest this grandmother effect explains why women evolved to live so… http://www.inklingmagazine.com/articles/who-needs-a-grandpa/

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