Mothers and Others: The Evolutionary Origins of Mutual Understanding PDF
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mothers and others Mothers and Others The evoluTionary origins of muTual unders Tanding Sarah Blaffer Hrdy The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press Cambridge, Massachusetts • London, Eng land Copyright © 2009 by Sarah Blaffer Hrdy all rights reserved Printed in the United States of America First Harvard University Press paperback edition, 2011 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Hrdy, Sarah Blaffer, 1946- Mothers and others : the evolutionary origins of mutual understanding / Sarah Blaffer Hrdy. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-0-674-03299-6 (cloth: alk. paper) ISBN 978-0-674-06032-6 (pbk.) 1. Mother and child. 2. Parental behavior in animals. 3. Child rearing--Psychological aspects. 4. Behavior evolution. I. Title. BF723.M55H73 2009 155.7—dc22 2008052936 For my children and my children’s children ConTenT s 1 Apes on a Plane 1 2 Why Us and Not Them? 33 3 Why It Takes a Village 65 4 Novel Developments 111 5 Will the Real Pleistocene Family Please Step Forward? 143 6 Meet the Alloparents 175 7 Babies as Sensory Traps 209 8 Grandmothers among Others 233 9 Childhood and the Descent of Man 273 Notes 297 References 341 Acknowledgments 403 Index 406 The leading problem in sociobiology today is explaining why we have prosocial emotions. —H. Gintis (2001) Which is why we need to keep in mind that . . . the causal chain of adaptive evolution begins with development. —M. J. West-Eberhard (2003)
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