Mothers and Others The Evolutionary Origins of Mutual Understanding 1st Edition by Sarah Blaffer Hrdy ISBN 0674060326 9780674060326

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ISBN 10: 0674060326

ISBN 13: 978-0674060326

Author: Sarah Blaffer Hrdy

Mothers and Others: The Evolutionary Origins of Mutual Understanding 1st Edition: “A brilliant work on a profoundly important subject. The leading scientific authority on motherhood has come through again.” ―E. O. Wilson

“Thought provoking…An engaging and compelling argument [that] requires us to rethink entrenched views about how we came to be human.” ―Science

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.

From its opening vision of “apes on a plane”; to descriptions of baby care among marmosets, chimpanzees, wolves, and lions; to explanations about why men in hunter-gatherer societies hunt together, Mothers and Others is compellingly readable. But it is also an intricately knit argument that ever since the Pleistocene, it has taken a village to raise children―and how that gave our ancient ancestors the first push on the path toward becoming emotionally modern human beings.

Mothers and Others: The Evolutionary Origins of Mutual Understanding 1st Edition Table of contents:

Part I: Evolutionary Foundations

Apes on a Plane

Why Us and Not Them?

Part II: The Social Network

Why It Takes a Village

Novel Developments

Will the Real Pleistocene Family Please Step Forward?

Meet the Alloparents   

Part III: The Child’s World

Babies as Sensory Traps

Grandmothers among Others

Childhood and the Descent of Man

References

Notes

 

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