a Custom Rap
by Dizzy Senze
People of all ages, gather around and politic
Have you all heard about the grandmother hypothesis?
If not, let’s get you acquainted now
To how grandmothers are essential, i’ll break it down With a nod to the extended family as a whole Grandparents, aunts and uncle create a mold
By passing down learned skills and traditions
And lessons from life experiences
Now if it wasn’t for the grand Mothers or the grand
Fathers or the extended family then our span
For life expectancy would be shorter than what it is Since they are vital parts in the child rearing years Kristen Hawkes candidly
Said what is special in the human lineage: the pair-bonded family
When moms have new babies, the attention is drawn
More to the survival of the helpless newborn
While dads support the offsprings, who would cover The welfare of the older kids? Grandmothers
They had experience and knowledge
To share amongst the kids since they would need it to survive Grandmothers were vital in human evolution
With their presence, the survival rate is boosted
Compared to female chimps, the great apes
Are great, but very few make it past breeding age
People of all ages, gather around and politic
Have you all heard about the grandmother hypothesis?
If not, let’s get you acquainted now
To how grandmothers are essential, i’ll break it down With a nod to the extended family as a whole Grandparents, aunts and uncle create a mold
By passing down learned skills and traditions
And lessons from life experiences
Shout out to Peter Kim with the agent based model
Consisting of an ape-like history to start from
Then he added grandmothering into the base
To see if longevity could mutate
As a result, human longevity climbed higher
Operational sex ratio tripled male bias
Which means, there were three times the amount
Of males competing for the breeding females around
Which can actually be good
Since conjugal bonds depend on
The existing bonds of brotherhood
Men compete for standing in society
And try to show their value as an ally, constantly
It seems grandmothering ushered in good benefits
Post-menopausal longevity, early weening and Pushing the rate higher for parents
So thank the grandmothers and let them know they are cherished
People of all ages, gather around and politic
Have you all heard about the grandmother hypothesis?
If not, let’s get you acquainted now
To how grandmothers are essential, i’ll break it down With a nod to the extended family as a whole Grandparents, aunts and uncle create a mold
By passing down learned skills and traditions
And lessons from life experiences