Mothers and others : the evolutionary origins of mutual understanding / Sarah Blaffer Hrdy.

  • Hrdy, Sarah Blaffer, 1946-
Date:
2009
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Publication/Creation

Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2009.

Physical description

422 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Bibliographic information

Includes bibliographical references (p. [341]-402) and index.

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.

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    History of Medicine
    PQZ /HRD
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ISBN

  • 9780674032996
  • 0674032993