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Mother nature : natural selection and the female of the species / Sarah Blaffer Hrdy.

By: Publication details: London : Chatto & Windus, 1999.Description: xvi, 697 p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 0701166258
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Contents:
Pt. 1. Look to the Animals. 1. Motherhood as a Minefield. 2. A New View of Mothers. 3. Underlying Mysteries of Development. 4. Unimaginable Variation. 5. The Variable Environments of Evolutionary Relevance -- Pt. 2. Mothers and Allomothers. 6. The Milky Way. 7. From Here to Maternity. 8. Family Planning Primate-Style. 9. Three Men and a Baby. 10. The Optimal Number of Fathers. 11. Who Cared? 12. Unnatural Mothers. 13. Daughters or Sons? It All Depends. 14. Old Tradeoffs, New Contexts -- Pt. 3. An Infant's-Eye View. 15. Born to Attach. 16. Meeting the Eyes of Love. 17. "Secure from What?" or "Secure from Whom?" 18. Empowering the Embryo. 19. Why Be Adorable? 20. How to Be "An Infant Worth Rearing" 21. A Matter of Fat. 22. Of Human Bondage. 23. Alternate Paths of Development. 24. Devising Better Lullabies.
Holdings
Item type Current library Call number Status Date due Barcode
Book Book Jessie Street National Women's Library 575 HRD (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available for reference in the library and ILL 61615

First published in the United States in 1999 by Pantheon Books.

Includes bibliographical references and index

Pt. 1. Look to the Animals. 1. Motherhood as a Minefield. 2. A New View of Mothers. 3. Underlying Mysteries of Development. 4. Unimaginable Variation. 5. The Variable Environments of Evolutionary Relevance -- Pt. 2. Mothers and Allomothers. 6. The Milky Way. 7. From Here to Maternity. 8. Family Planning Primate-Style. 9. Three Men and a Baby. 10. The Optimal Number of Fathers. 11. Who Cared? 12. Unnatural Mothers. 13. Daughters or Sons? It All Depends. 14. Old Tradeoffs, New Contexts -- Pt. 3. An Infant's-Eye View. 15. Born to Attach. 16. Meeting the Eyes of Love. 17. "Secure from What?" or "Secure from Whom?" 18. Empowering the Embryo. 19. Why Be Adorable? 20. How to Be "An Infant Worth Rearing" 21. A Matter of Fat. 22. Of Human Bondage. 23. Alternate Paths of Development. 24. Devising Better Lullabies.

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