Mothers and Others: The Evolutionary Origins of Mutual Understanding by Sarah Blaffer Hrdy

Mothers and Others: The Evolutionary Origins of Mutual Understanding

Sarah Blaffer Hrdy

394 pages first pub 2009 (editions)

nonfiction psychology science challenging informative reflective slow-paced

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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 cap...

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