Mothers and Others

The Evolutionary Origins of Mutual Understanding

Sarah Blaffer Hrdy

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$23.50 • £18.95 • €21.00

ISBN 9780674060326

Publication Date: 04/15/2011

Short

432 pages

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

52 halftones

Belknap Press

World

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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

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

An Irish Times Best Book of 2009

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