Mothers And Others: The Evolutionary Origins Of Mutual Understanding

Author: Sarah Blaffer Hrdy

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  • : 01 April 2011
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"Mothers and Others" looks to a line of apes who began to rear their young differently than their Great Ape ancestors. Out of this complicated and contingent form of childrearing, Hrdy argues, came the human capacity for understanding others.