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An edition of Mothers and others (2009)

Mothers and others

the evolutionary origins of mutual understanding

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"Somewhere in Africa, more than a million years ago, a line of apes began to rear their young differently than their Great Ape ancestors. From this new 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 thousands of generations, is the mystery revealed in this bold and wide-ranging new vision of human emotional evolution." "Mothers and Others finds the key in the primatologically unique length of human childhood. If the young were to survive in a world of scarce food, they needed to be cared for, not only by their mothers but also by siblings, aunts, fathers, friends - and, with any luck, grandmothers. Out of this complicated and contingent form of childrearing, Sarah Hrdy argues, came the human capacity for understanding others. Mothers and others teach us who will care, and who will not"--Jacket.

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Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
Language
English
Pages
422

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Subjects

Parental behavior in animals Behavior evolution Mother and child Child rearing Psychological aspects Opvoeding Eltern Psychology Évolution (biologie) Hominisation Kind Coopération (psychologie) Sozialisation Verhalten Animal Behavior Groupe social Primaten Éducation Ouderschap Biological Evolution Mutter Erziehung Verhaltensforschung Kinderbetreuung Evolution Evolutionspsykologi Mother-Child Relations Antropologie Psykologiska aspekter Mor-barnrelationer Sozialverhalten Enfant Barnuppfostran Maternité Hominidae Social Behavior Psychologie Evolutie Mödrar Jungtiere
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Table of Contents

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.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Published in
Cambridge, Mass

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
155.7
Library of Congress
BF723.M55 H73 2009, BF723.M55H73 2009, BF723.M55 H73 2011

The Physical Object

Pagination
p. cm.
Number of pages
422

Edition Identifiers

Open Library
OL22842599M
ISBN 13
9780674032996
LCCN
2008052936
OCLC/WorldCat
694228270, 261174072
LibraryThing
8030869
Goodreads
6251387

Work Identifiers

Work ID
OL18805358W

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