Mothers and Others: The Evolutionary Origins of Mutual Understanding

By Sarah Blaffer Hrdy

Book Overview

"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.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674032993
• ISBN13: 9780674032996
• Release Date: April 2009
• Publisher: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
• Length: 432 Pages
• Weight: 1.89 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.5" x 1.3" x 6.5"