Taylor, Shelley E., <br/><br/>
The tending instinct :  how nurturing is essential for who we are and how we live / 
Shelley E. Taylor. 
 - First edition. 
 - vii, 290 pages ;  24 cm 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (pages 238-280) and index. 
<br/><br/>The power of tending -- The origins of tending -- The tending brain -- Good and bad tending -- A little help from friends and strangers -- Women befriending -- Tending in marriage -- Men's groups -- Where altruism may reside -- The social context of tending -- The tending society. 
<br/><br/> Taylor examines stress, relationships, and human society through the special lens of women's biology. She draws on genetics, evolutionary psychology, physiology, and neuroscience to show how this tending process begins virtually at the moment of conception and literally crafts the biology of offspring through genes that rely on caregiving for their expression. Taylor also examines what drives women to seek each other's company, and to tend to the young and the infirm -- acts that greatly benefit the group but often at great cost to the individual. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0805068376 9780805068375 0805072896 9780805072891 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2002019879 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Sociobiology.<br/>Sex differences.<br/>Nurturing behavior.<br/>Stress (Psychology)<br/>Biology.<br/>Sex Characteristics<br/>Social Support.<br/>Stress, Psychological
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>HM628  / .T38 2002 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>304.5 
<br/><br/><label>National Library of Medicine Call No.: </label>HM 628 T246 2002