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Mother nature : a history of mothers, infants, and natural selection / Sarah Blaffer Hrdy.

by Hrdy, Sarah Blaffer, 1946-

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New York : Pantheon Books, c1999.

Mother and child.

Motherhood -- Psychological aspects.

Natural selection.

Parental behavior in animals.

Working mothers.

xix, 723 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 25 cm.

Motherhood as a minefield -- A new view of mothers -- Underlying mysterires of development -- Unimaginable variation -- The variable environments of evolutionary relevance -- The Milky Way -- From here to maternity -- Family planning primate-style -- Three men and a baby -- The optimal number of fathers -- Who cared? -- Unnatural mothers -- Daughters or sons? It all depends -- Old tradeoffs, new contexts -- Born to attach -- Meeting the eyes of love -- "Secure from what?" or "Secure from whom?" -- Empowering the embryo -- Why be adorable? -- How to be "an infant worth rearing" -- A matter of fat -- On human bondage -- Alternate paths of development -- Devising better lullabies.

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