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Hrdy, Sarah Blaffer, 1946-

Title Mothers and others : the evolutionary origins of mutual understanding / Sarah Blaffer Hrdy.

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Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2009.

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Location	Call No.	OPAC Message	Status
Axe 3rd Floor Stacks	155.7 H857m 2009	---	Available

Description	422 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (p. [341]-402) and index.
Contents	Apes on a plane -- Why us and not them? -- Why it takes a village -- Novel developments -- Will the real pleistocene family please step forward? -- Meet the Alloparents -- Babies as sensory traps -- Grandmothers among others -- Childhood and the descent of man.
Subject	Mother and child.
	Parental behavior in animals.
	Child rearing -- Psychological aspects.
	Behavior evolution.
	Mother-Child Relations.
	Behavior, Animal.
	Child Rearing -- psychology.
	Evolution.
	Hominidae -- psychology.
	Social Behavior.
ISBN	9780674032996 (alk. paper)
	0674032993 (alk. paper)