Mothers and Others

The Evolutionary Origins of Mutual Understanding

Sarah Blaffer Hrdy

    1. Apes on a Plane
    2. Why Us and Not Them?
    3. Why It Takes a Village
    4. Novel Developments
    5. Will the Real Pleistocene Family Please Step Forward?
    6. Meet the Alloparents
    7. Babies as Sensory Traps
    8. Grandmothers among Others
    9. Childhood and the Descent of Man
    • Notes
    • References
    • Acknowledgments
    • Index
  • Cover: Mothers and Others
  • A photo of the author

Photo by Sophie Bassouls

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