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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. - Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2009. - 422 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [341]-402) 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.

9780674032996 (alk. paper) 0674032993 (alk. paper) 9780674060326

2008052936


Mother and child.
Parental behavior in animals.
Child rearing--Psychological aspects.
Behavior evolution.

BF723.M55 / H73 2009

155.7

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