Growing up human : the evolution of childhood / Brenna Hassett.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hassett, Brenna, author.

Series:

Bloomsbury Sigma series ; bk. 73.

Bloomsbury sigma series ; book seventy-three

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Children--History.

Children.

Child development.

Human reproduction.

Human evolution.

Paleoanthropology.

Physical anthropology.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

384 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Bloomsbury Sigma, 2022.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: ch. 1 Mary, Mary, Quite Contrary: An Introduction

ch. 2 Pop! Goes the Weasel: Life History and Why it Matters

ch. 3 Two Little Monkeys Jumping on the Bed: Making More Monkeys

ch. 4 A Froggy Would A-Courting Go: How Weird is Monogamy?

ch. 5 Georgie Porgie, Pudding and Pie: Conception and Fertility and Fat

ch. 6 Bake Me a Cake as Fast as You Can: the Joys of Gestation

ch. 7 Cackle, Cackle, Mother Goose: Having a Baby

ch. 8 See-Saw, Margery Daw: Cultural Adaptations to Birth

ch. 9 Bye, Baby Bunting: Caring for a Child the Old-Fashioned Way

ch. 10 Old Mother Hubbard's Cupboard: the Magic of Milk

ch. 11 Hey Diddle Diddle: the Cultural Life of Milk

ch. 12 Papa's Gonna Buy You a Mockingbird: the Evolution of Dads

ch. 13 There Was an Old Woman Who Lived in a Shoe: Lots of Babies Fast

ch. 14 The Mouse Ran Up the Clock: the Long Primate Childhood

ch. 15 Give a Dog a Bone: How Paleoanthropology Started to Chase Down Childhood

ch. 16 Grandmother, What Big Teeth You Have: How Teeth Gave the Game Away

ch. 17 The More We Get Together: the Importance of Social Learning

ch. 18 Girls and Boys Come Out to Play: Learning the Easy Way

ch. 19 Jack and Jill Went Up the Hill: the Hard Work of Childhood

ch. 20 How Many Miles to Babylon?: A Very Human Childhood

ch. 21 Thursday's Child: Far to Go.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 353-376) and index.

Other Format:

ebook version :

ISBN:

9781472975751

1472975758

OCLC:

1314376766