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Mother nature : a history of mothers, infants, and natural selection / Sarah Blaffer Hrdy.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York : Pantheon Books, [1999]Copyright date: ©1999Edition: First editionDescription: xix, 723 pages : illustrations (some colour) ; 25 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0679442650
  • 9780679442653
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 306.8743
LOC classification:
  • HQ759. H784 1999
Contents:
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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Item type Current library Call number Copy number Status Date due Barcode
Book City Campus City Campus Main Collection 306.8743 HRD (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available A285398B
Book North Campus North Campus Main Collection 306.8743 HRD (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available A187221B

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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