Mothers and Others: The Origin of Emotionally Modern Humans -- lecture and Booksigning with Sarah...
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Nov 18, 2009 6:00 pm (Wednesday)
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Anthropologist and primate sociobiologist Sarah Blaffer Hrdy studies how the apes in the line leading to the genus Homo became so "other-regarding" and potentially cooperat...
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Anthropologist and primate sociobiologist Sarah Blaffer Hrdy studies how the apes in the line leading to the genus Homo became so "other-regarding" and potentially cooperative. Hrdy will discuss her newest book, Mothers and Others, in which she emphasizes the need to consider our Pleistocene ancestors' peculiar mode of child-rearing. Reception to follow. Free and open to the public. Cosponsored with the Department of Human Evolutionary Biology at Harvard and the Harvard University Press.
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