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SUMMARY:Collaborative Childrearing Among Hunter-Gatherers: Implications fo
 r Maternal and Child Wellbeing in Industrialised Societies. - Dr Nikhil Ch
 audhary\, Leverhulme Centre for Human Evolutionary Studies\, Cambridge
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 802757328699?aff=oddtdtcreator\n\n*Abstract:* \n\nHumans lived as hunter-g
 atherers for the majority of our evolutionary history\, thus studying cont
 emporary hunter-gatherer populations can offer insight into the socio-ecol
 ogical conditions we may be psychologically adapted to. \n\nBased on obser
 vational work conducted with hunter-gatherers societies I found that their
  childrearing: i) is extremely collaborative involving up to 20 caregivers
 \; ii) relies more heavily on the involvement of child and adolescents tha
 n adult (non-maternal) caregivers\; iii) is highly sensitive and responsiv
 e. \n\nI discuss how maternal and child mental health problems in industri
 alised societies may be in part a product of evolutionary mismatch—malad
 aptation or pathology arising when an organism is exposed to evolutionaril
 y novel conditions. \n\nI will also outline an ongoing psychoeducation pro
 ject related to these findings which aims to reduce guilt and shame and in
 crease help-seeking among women struggling with motherhood. \n\nThe talk w
 ill end with an audience Q&A. \n\n*Speaker bio:*\n\nDr Nikhil Chaudhary is
  an Assistant Professor of Evolutionary Anthropology at the University of 
 Cambridge where he runs a dedicated Evolutionary Psychiatry lab\, he is al
 so an executive committee member of the Evolutionary Psychiatry Special In
 terest Group at the Royal College of Psychiatrists. \n\nHe completed his P
 hD and postdoctoral research as a member of the Hunter-Gatherer Resilience
  project at University College London\, and he has been conducting researc
 h with BaYaka hunter-gatherers from Congo for over a decade. \n\nHis previ
 ous research investigated the evolution of human sociality and cooperation
  by examining the relationship between social capital and evolutionary fit
 ness in hunter-gatherer communities. \n\nHis current work explores our vul
 nerability to mental health problems from an evolutionary perspective. He 
 is particularly interested in how collaborative childrearing practices in 
 hunter-gatherer and industrialised societies impact maternal and child psy
 chological wellbeing. \n\nHe has also recently started a project examining
  how socio-ecological features of London neighbourhoods may overstimulate 
 certain features of social cognition and increase the schizophrenia risk. 
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