Book · 2011 · Family & Relationships
Mothers and Others
The Evolutionary Origins of Mutual Understanding
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Dr. Hardy really comes down on the cooperation side of things in her book mothers and others where she brings together all this evidence that we are basically descendants of a place to scene species of cooperative breeders.
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“Dr. Hardy really comes down on the cooperation side of things in her book mothers and others where she brings together all this evidence that we are basically descendants of a place to scene species of cooperative breeders.”
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“So as the book um progresses, Hardy spends some time talking about how we are similar to and different from other great apes. So we learn about how we use eye contact and smiles to bond even from a young age.”
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“And I mean that's part of of what um Herie talks about especially in her final chapter that being how in modern times the accumulation of property um the emergence of patriarchy um even the stuff in the post-industrial era.”
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“and so at the end of her book, she also speculates, so we might be losing our art of nature because we are continually evolving. Um but she wonders what might the potential evolutionary effects be if we were rearing children who are not living in intimate contact with a variety of caregivers”
