Costly and Cute
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Costly and Cute

Helpless Infants and Human Evolution

  1. 328 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF
Available until 31 Dec |Learn more

Costly and Cute

Helpless Infants and Human Evolution

About this book

Scholars have long argued that the developmental state of the human infant at birth is unique. This volume expands that argument, pointing out that many distinctively human characteristics can be traced to the fact that we give birth to infants who are highly dependent on others and who learn how to be human while their brains are experiencing growth unlike that seen in other primates. The contributors to this volume propose that the "helpless infant" has played a role in human evolution equal in importance to those of "man the hunter" and "woman the gatherer." The authors take a broad look at how human infants are similar to and different from the infants of other species, at how our babies have constrained our evolution over the past six million years, and at how they continue to shape the ways we live today.

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Yes, you can access Costly and Cute by Wenda R. Trevathan, Karen R. Rosenberg, Wenda R. Trevathan,Karen R. Rosenberg in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Social Sciences & Anthropology. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Table of contents

  1. Front Cover
  2. SAR Series Page
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright
  5. Contents
  6. List of Illustrations
  7. 1: Human Evolution and the Helpless Infant / Wenda R. Trevathan and Karen R. Rosenberg
  8. 2: The Obstetrical Dilemma Unraveled / Holly M. Dunsworth
  9. 3: Primate Birth at the Extremes: Exploring Obstetric and Metabolic Constraints / Marcia Ponce de León and Christoph P. E. Zollikofer
  10. 4: Brains, Birth, Bipedalism, and the Mosaic Evolution of the Helpless Human Infant / Jeremy M. DeSilva
  11. 5: Infancy by Design: Maternal Metabolism, Hormonal Signals, and the Active Management of Infant Growth by Human Milk / E. A. Quinn
  12. 6: Baby the Trendsetter: Three Evo-Devo Trends and Their Expressionin Asperger Syndrome / Dean Falk
  13. 7: Plastic and Heterogeneous: Postnatal Developmental Changes in the Human Brain / Katerina Semendeferi and Kari L. Hanson
  14. 8: Testosterone, Fatherhood, and Social Networks / Lee T. Gettler
  15. 9: Of Marmosets, Men, and the Transformative Power of Babies / Sarah B. Hrdy
  16. 10: Forget Ye Not the Mother-Infant Dyad!: In a World of Allomothers and Maternal Agency, Do Mothers Still Stand Out? / James J. McKenna
  17. Bibliography
  18. Contributors
  19. Index
  20. Back Cover