Mothers and others: the evolutionary origins of mutual understanding [First Harvard University Press pbk. edition]
9780674032996, 0674032993, 9780674659933, 0674659937
Somewhere in Africa, more than a million years ago, a line of apes began to rear their young differently than their Grea
Table of contents : Apes on a plane -- Why us and not them? -- Why it takes a village -- Novel developments -- Will the real pleistocene family please step forward? -- Meet the alloparents -- Babies as sensory traps -- Grandmothers among others -- Childhood and the descent of man.