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Mother Nature

Sarah Blaffer Hrdy

  • 710 pages · about 12 hours
  • First published 1999
  • 12 editions
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1 About this book

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.. BOOK JACKET.

Good for readers who want: evolution, psychology, and a long read.

  • Evolution
  • Psychology
  • Human evolution
  • Female
  • Mother and child
  • Motherhood
  • Natural selection
  • Mothers

2 About Sarah Blaffer Hrdy

Born 1946

Sarah Hrdy (née Blaffer; born July 11, 1946) is an American anthropologist and primatologist who has made major contributions to evolutionary psychology and sociobiology. She is considered "a highly recognized pioneer in modernizing our understanding of the evolutionary basis of female behavior in both nonhuman and human primates". She is also considered an important figure in Darwinian feminism.

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