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Mothers and Others

The Evolutionary Origins of Mutual Understanding

Sarah Blaffer Hrdy

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ISBN 9780674060326

Publication Date: 04/15/2011

432 pages

6-1/8 x 9-1/4 inches

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

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Awards & Accolades

Sarah Blaffer Hrdy Is Winner of a 2014 National Academy of Sciences Award for Scientific Reviewing

2012 J.I. Staley Prize, School for Advanced Research

2012 W.W. Howells Book Prize, Biological Anthropology Section of the American Anthropological Association

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