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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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At Scientific American, read an in-depth, two-part interview with Sarah Blaffer Hrdy on the evolution of her own research, from reproductive strategies in apes to human cooperative parenting
Read more about the competing “modern” theories of child development, and how Hrdy’s own experiences influenced her research in that area, in Times Higher Education
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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

A Globe and Mail Best Book of 2009

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