Mother nature : a history of mothers, infants, and natural selection / Sarah Blaffer Hrdy.
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TextPublisher: New York : Pantheon Books, [1999]Copyright date: ©1999Edition: First editionDescription: xix, 723 pages : illustrations (some colour) ; 25 cmContent type: - text
- unmediated
- volume
- 0679442650
- 9780679442653
- 306.8743
- HQ759. H784 1999
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| Book | City Campus City Campus Main Collection | 306.8743 HRD (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | A285398B | ||
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 603-690) and index.
Motherhood as a minefield -- A new view of mothers -- Underlying mysteries of development -- Unimaginable variation -- The variable environments of evolutionary relevance -- The Milky Way -- From here to maternity -- Family planning primate-style -- Three men and a baby -- The optimal number of fathers -- Who cared? -- Unnatural mothers -- Daughters or sons? It all depends -- Old tradeoffs, new contexts -- Born to attach -- Meeting the eyes of love -- "Secure from what?" or "Secure from whom?" -- Empowering the embryo -- Why be adorable? -- How to be "an infant worth rearing" -- A matter of fat -- On human bondage -- Alternate paths of development -- Devising better lullabies.
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