TY - BOOK AU - Hrdy,Sarah Blaffer TI - Mother nature: maternal instincts and how they shape the human species SN - 0345408934 : AV - HQ759 .H784 2000 U1 - 306.874/3 21 PY - 2000/// CY - New York PB - Ballantine Books KW - Mother and child KW - Motherhood KW - Psychological aspects KW - Natural selection KW - Parental behavior in animals KW - Working mothers N1 - Includes bibliographical references (p. 603-690) and index; Motherhood as a minefield -- A new view of mothers -- Underlying mysteries of development -- Unimaginable variation -- The variable environments of evolutionary relevance -- The Milky Way -- From here to maternity -- Family planning primate-style -- Three men and a baby -- The optimal number of fathers -- Who cared? -- Unnatural mothers -- Daughters or sons? It all depends -- Old tradeoffs, new contexts -- Born to attach -- Meeting the eyes of love -- "Secure from what?" or "Secure from whom?" -- Empowering the embryo -- Why be adorable? -- How to be "an infant worth rearing" -- A matter of fat -- On human bondage -- Alternate paths of development -- Devising better lullabies ER -