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by Sarah Blaffer Hrdy

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Maternal instinct -- the all-consuming, utterly selfless love that mothers lavish on their children -- has long been assumed to be an innate element of a woman's nature. But is it? In this groundbreaking book, renowned anthropologist (and mother) Sarah Blaffer Hrdy shares a radical new vision of mother- hood and its crucial role in human evolution.

Hrdy strips away stereotypes and genderbiased myths to demonstrate that traditional views of maternal behavior are essentially wishful thinking. Far from being selfless, successful primate mothers have always combined nurturing with ambition, mother love with sexual love, devotion with ambivalence.

In her stunningly original interpretation of the relationships between mothers and fathers, mothers and babies, mothers and their social group, Hrdy offers not only a revolutionary new meaning to motherhood but an important new understanding of human evolution.

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  • Title Mother Nature: A History of Mothers, Infants, and Natural Selection
  • Author Sarah Blaffer Hrdy
  • Binding Hardback
  • Edition First Edition
  • Pages 752
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Pantheon Books, New York, New York, U.S.A.
  • Publication date 1999-09
  • Illustrated Yes
  • ISBN 9780679442653 / 0679442650
  • Weight 2.5 lbs (1.13 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.56 x 6.85 x 1.55 in (24.28 x 17.40 x 3.94 cm)
  • Category Science
  • Library of Congress subjects Mother and child, Motherhood - Psychological aspects
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 99013092
  • Dewey Decimal Code 306.874
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