TY  - BOOK
AU  - Taylor,Shelley E.
TI  - The tending instinct: how nurturing is essential for who we are and how we live 
SN  - 0805068376
AV  - HM628 .T38 2002
U1  - 304.5 23
PY  - 2002///
CY  - New York
PB  - Times Books
KW  - Sociobiology
KW  - Sex differences
KW  - Nurturing behavior
KW  - Stress (Psychology)
KW  - Biology
KW  - Sex Characteristics
KW  - Social Support
KW  - Stress, Psychological
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 238-280) and index; 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
N2  - 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
UR  - http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/bios/hol051/2002019879.html
ER  -