Mother Nature
Maternal Instincts and How They Shape the Human Species
by Sarah Hrdy
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"Mother Nature presents a radical new way of understanding how mothers act and why, and how this new understanding is changing the way scientists think about how evolution works." "Drawing on anthropology, history, literature, developmental psychology, and animal behavior, Sarah Hrdy examines the distinct biological and genetic elements that constitute maternal instinct. She strips away the biases implicit in conventional stereotypes of female nature to give us very different and provocative perspectives on maternal ambivalence, the links between maternity and ambition, mother love and sexual love, and she explains why age-old tensions between the sexes persist and are being played out today in efforts to control women's reproductive choices."--Jacket.
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Parental behavior in animals, Working mothers, Human evolution, Motherhood, Mother and child, Motherhood--psychological aspects, Natural selection, Mère et enfant, Maternité--aspect psychologique, Sélection naturelle, Comportement parental chez les animaux, Hq759 .h784 2000, 306.874/3, Psychological aspects, Maternité, Aspect psychologique| Edition | Availability |
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Mother Nature: Maternal Instincts and How They Shape the Human Species
September 5, 2000, Ballantine Books
Paperback
in English
0345408934 9780345408938
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"Being a mother has never been simple."
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