Mother Nature Maternal Instincts and How They Shape the Human Species

Name: Mother Nature Maternal Instincts and How They Shape the Human Species
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ISBN: 9780345408938

ISBN-10: 0345408934

ISBN-13: 9780345408938

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Authors: Sarah Hrdy

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Maternal instinct--the all-consuming, utterly selfless love that mothers lavish on their children--has long been assumed to be an innate, indeed defining element of a woman's nature. But is it? In this provocative, groundbreaking book, renowned anthropologist (and mother) Sarah Blaffer Hrdy shares a radical new vision of motherhood and its crucial role in human evolution. Hrdy strips away stereotypes and gender-biased myths to demonstrate that traditional views of maternal behavior are essentially wishful thinking codified as objective observation. As Hrdy argues, far from being "selfless," successful primate mothers have always combined nurturing with ambition, mother love with sexual…

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List price: $22.00
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Publication date: 9/5/2000
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 756
Size: 6.10" wide x 9.20" long x 1.20" tall
Weight: 2.288
Language: English



Preface



Look to the Animals



Motherhood as a Minefield



A New View of Mothers



Underlying Mysteries of Development



Unimaginable Variation



The Variable Environments of Evolutionary Relevance



Mothers and Allomothers



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



An Infant's-Eye View



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



Of Human Bondage



Alternate Paths of Development



Devising Better Lullabies


Notes


Acknowledgments


Bibliography


Index