Mothers and others : the evolutionary origins of mutual understanding

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Mothers and others : the evolutionary origins of mutual understanding

Title remainder

the evolutionary origins of mutual understanding

Statement of responsibility

Sarah Blaffer Hrdy

Creator

• Hrdy, Sarah Blaffer, 1946-

Subject

• Behavior evolution
• Behavior evolution
• Behavior, Animal
• Biological Evolution
• Child Rearing -- psychology
• Child rearing -- Psychological aspects
• Child rearing -- Psychological aspects
• Eltern -- Kind
• Evolutie
• Evolution
• Evolution
• Evolution
• Hominidae -- psychology
• Hominisation
• Jungtiere
• Kind
• Kind
• Kind -- Erziehung
• Kinderbetreuung
• Mother and child
• Mother and child
• Mother-Child Relations
• Mutter
• Mutter
• Opvoeding
• Ouderschap
• Parental behavior in animals
• Parental behavior in animals
• Primaten
• Psychologie
• Psychologie
• Social Behavior
• Sozialisation
• Sozialverhalten
• Antropologie
• Verhalten
• Verhaltensforschung
• coopération (psychologie) -- éducation | enfant | évolution (biologie) | groupe social
• évolution (biologie) -- maternité
• Sozialverhalten

Language

eng

Summary

"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"--BOOK JACKET

Cataloging source

DLC

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

LC call number

BF723.M55

LC item number

H73 2009

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography

NLM call number

• 2009 D-542
• WS 105.5.F2

NLM item number

H873m 2009