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Infanticide: Comparative and Evolutionary Perspectives
Glenn Hausfater

Aldine, 1984

Recent field studies of a variety of mammalian species reveal a surprisingly high frequency of infanticide-the killing of unweaned or otherwise maternally dependent offspring. Similarly, studies of birds, fish, amphibians, and invertebrates demonstrate egg and larval mortality in these species, a phenomenon directly analogous to infanticide in mammals. In this collection, Hausfater and Hrdy draw together work on animal and human infanticide and ...

Mother Nature Maternal Instincts and How They Shape the Human Species

37 reviews
Sarah Blaffer Hrdy

Ballantine B00K, 2000

Must-read for any woman or parent (especially working moms!)
I find myself raving about this book to every woman (and man) I know. This is the most astounding and thought-provoking book I've read in recent years. Professor Hrdy is an emeritus professor of anthropology at UC Davis who puts the behavior of mothers and infants into an evolutionary context, using a comparative approach and drawing from sociobiology, anthropology, and psychology. I enjoyed ...

Infanticide
Glenn (EDT)/ Hrdy, Sarah Blaffer (EDT) Hausfater

Transaction Pub, 2008

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

6 reviews
Sarah Blaffer Hrdy

Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2009

Why us and not them?
This book should be read by anyone with an interest in human evolution but especially by those with an interest in human uniqueness. Dr. Hrdy writes beautifully, is vigorous in her attention to empirical evidence, but she is also willing to speculate about the conditions that fostered uniquely human traits. Among the most obvious of these traits are our extended lifespans, prolonged childhoods, ...

Woman That Never Evolved

2 reviews
Sarah Blaffer Hrdy

Harvard University Press, 1981

Insights Into the Evolution of Human Behavior
Found this book to be an excellent read. I am a biologist and physical anthropologist by training...with specific interest in human evolution. The links between behavior in our closest primate relatives and ourselves...are very relevant. I found Hrdy's scientific discussion of these issues...appropriate and as insightful as science allows us to be. I would recommend this book and other books ...

Mother Nature: A History of Mothers, Infants, and Natural Selection
Sarah Blaffer Hrdy

Pantheon, 1999

A History of Mothers, Infants and Natural Selection

Mutter Natur. Die weibliche Seite der Evolution.
Sarah Blaffer Hrdy

Berliner Taschenbuchverlag, 2002

The Langurs of Abu: Female and Male Strategies of Reproduction
Sarah Blaffer Hrdy

Harvard University Press, 1978

Sexual combat is not a monopoly of the human species. As Sarah Blaffer Hrdy argues in this spellbinding book, war between male and female animals has deep roots in evolutionary history. Her account of family life among hanuman langurs--the black-faced, gray monkeys inhabiting much of the Indian subcontinent--is written with force, wit, and, at times, sorrow. Male hanumans, in pursuit of genetic success, routinely kill babies sired ...

Les Instincts maternels
Sarah Blaffer Hrdy, Françoise Bouillot

Payot, 2002

MOTHER NATURE: NATURAL SELECTION AND THE FEMALE OF THE SPECIES
Sarah Blaffer Hrdy

London Chatto & Windus, 1999

This groundbreaking book by one of the world's leading sociobiologists radically changes the way we think about Natural Selection and maternal behavior. Until now, evolutionary biology has focused on men, and the picture has been woefully incomplete. But recent years have seen a dramatic swing in the way Darwinians think about females - and Sarah Blaffer Hrdy has been in the forefront of that change. Here at last is a brilliant, provocative ...

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