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Mothers and others : the evolutionary origins of mutual understanding / Sarah Blaffer Hrdy.
Van Pelt Library BF723.M55 H73 2011
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hrdy, Sarah Blaffer, 1946-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Mother and child.
- Parental behavior in animals.
- Child rearing--Psychological aspects.
- Child rearing.
- Behavior evolution.
- Mother-Child Relations.
- Behavior, Animal.
- Child Rearing--psychology.
- Biological Evolution.
- Hominidae--psychology.
- Social Behavior.
- Medical Subjects:
- Mother-Child Relations.
- Behavior, Animal.
- Child Rearing--psychology.
- Biological Evolution.
- Hominidae--psychology.
- Social Behavior.
- Physical Description:
- 422 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Edition:
- First Harvard University Press paperback edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2011.
- 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.
- Notes:
- Originally published in hardcover: 2009.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [341]-402) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0674060326
- 9780674060326
- OCLC:
- 694228270
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