Mothers and others : the evolutionary origins of mutual understanding /
Hrdy, Sarah Blaffer, 1946-
Mothers and others : the evolutionary origins of mutual understanding / Sarah Blaffer Hrdy. - First Harvard University Press pbk. edition. - Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, (c)2011. - 1 online resource (422 pages) : illustrations
Originally published in hardcover: 2009.
Includes bibliographies and index.
Apes on a plane -- Why us and not them? -- Why it takes a village -- Novel developments -- Will the real pleistocene family please step forward? -- Meet the alloparents -- Babies as sensory traps -- Grandmothers among others -- Childhood and the descent of man.
Somewhere in Africa, more than a million years ago, a line of ape began to rear their young differently than their Great Ape ancestors. From this form of care came new ways of engaging and understanding each other. How such singular human capacities evolved, and how they have kept us alive for generations, is revealed in this book.
9780674659933
Mother and child.
Parental behavior in animals.
Child rearing--Psychological aspects.
Behavior evolution.
Animal behavior.
Evolution (Biology)
Electronic Books.
BF723 / .M684 2011
Mothers and others : the evolutionary origins of mutual understanding / Sarah Blaffer Hrdy. - First Harvard University Press pbk. edition. - Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, (c)2011. - 1 online resource (422 pages) : illustrations
Originally published in hardcover: 2009.
Includes bibliographies and index.
Apes on a plane -- Why us and not them? -- Why it takes a village -- Novel developments -- Will the real pleistocene family please step forward? -- Meet the alloparents -- Babies as sensory traps -- Grandmothers among others -- Childhood and the descent of man.
Somewhere in Africa, more than a million years ago, a line of ape began to rear their young differently than their Great Ape ancestors. From this form of care came new ways of engaging and understanding each other. How such singular human capacities evolved, and how they have kept us alive for generations, is revealed in this book.
9780674659933
Mother and child.
Parental behavior in animals.
Child rearing--Psychological aspects.
Behavior evolution.
Animal behavior.
Evolution (Biology)
Electronic Books.
BF723 / .M684 2011