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Sarah Hrdy: Evolutionary Origins of Mutual Understanding

November 18, 2009

Sarah Blaffer Hrdy anthropologist, primate sociobiologist

Anthropologist and primate sociobiologist Sarah Blaffer Hrdy discusses her newest book, Mothers and Others: The Evolutionary Origins of Mutual Understanding, in which she emphasizes the need to consider our Pleistocene ancestors' peculiar mode of child-rearing. Hrdy studies how the apes in the line leading to the genus Homo became so "other-regarding" and potentially cooperative.

Cosponsored with Harvard's Department of Human Evolutionary Biology and the Harvard University Press.

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Topics: Culture & Identity | History | People & Places | Science & Nature

Tags: Anthropology | Authors | evolution | homo sapien | instinct | Mothers and Others | Archaeology | Community Building | Biology | Family Issues | Non-Fiction | Lifestyle | Women's Issues

Presented By WGBH and Harvard Museum of Natural History:

Harvard Museum of Natural History

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Debating Same-Sex Marriage / The Good Life

Lecture Twenty-Two: "Debating Same-Sex Marriage"

Mothers and Others: The Evolutionary Origins of Mutual Understanding (Belknap Press)

Author: Sarah Blaffer Hrdy

Publisher: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press (2009)

Binding: Hardcover, 432 pages

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Author: Sarah Blaffer Hrdy

Publisher: Harvard University Press (1999)

Binding: Paperback, 304 pages

MOTHER NATURE: NATURAL SELECTION AND THE FEMALE OF THE SPECIES

Manufacturer: London Chatto & Windus

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