Mothers and Others: The Evolutionary Origins of Mutual Understanding - Rilegato

Hrdy, Sarah Blaffer

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ISBN 10: 0674032993 ISBN 13: 9780674032996

Casa editrice: Belknap Pr, 2009

Riassunto

Somewhere in Africa, more than a million years ago, a line of apes began to rear their young differently than their Great Ape ancestors. From this new form of care came new ways of engaging and understanding each other. How such singular human capacities evolved, and how they have kept us alive for thousands of generations, is the mystery revealed in this bold and wide-ranging new vision of human emotional evolution.
Mothers and Others finds the key in the primatologically unique length of human childhood. If the young were to survive in a world of scarce food, they needed to be cared for, not only by their mothers but also by siblings, aunts, fathers, friends - and, with any luck, grandmothers. Out of this complicated and contingent form of childrearing, Sarah Hrdy argues, came the human capacity for understanding others. Mothers and others teach us who will care, and who will not

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L'autore:

Sarah Blaffer Hrdy is is Professor Emerita of Anthropology at University of California-Davis.

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Book by Hrdy Sarah Blaffer

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Belknap Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0674032993
• ISBN 13: 9780674032996
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 422