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Mothers and others : the evolutionary origins of mutual understanding / Sarah Blaffer Hrdy.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, (c)2011.Edition: First Harvard University Press pbk. editionDescription: 1 online resource (422 pages) : illustrationsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780674659933
Subject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • BF723 .M684 2011
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Contents:
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.
Summary: 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.
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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.

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