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Attachment And Bonding: A New Synthesisby Carol Sue Carter, Sarah Blaffer Hrdy , M.E. Lamb, Stephen W. Porges, K. E. Gorssmann, N. SachserISBN 0262033488 (0-262-03348-8)
Hardcover, Mit Pr
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The Black-Man of Zinacantan, a Central American Legend: Including an Analysis of Tales Recorded and Translated by Robert M. Laughlinby Sarah Blaffer HrdyISBN 0292707010 (0-292-70701-0)
Hardcover, University of Texas Press
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Infanticide: Comparative and Evolutionary Perspectivesby Glenn Hausfater, Sarah Blaffer HrdyISBN 0202362213 (0-202-36221-3)
Softcover, Aldine De Gruyter
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Langurs of Abu: Female and Male Strategies of Reproductionby Sarah Blaffer HrdyISBN 0674510585 (0-674-51058-5)
Softcover, Harvard Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Langurs of Abu: Female and Male Strategies of Reproduction'Book summary:Sexual combat is not a monopoly of the human species. As Sarah Blaffer Hrdy argues in this spellbinding book, war between male and female animals has deep roots in evolutionary history. Her account of family life among hanuman langurs--the black-faced, gray monkeys inhabiting much of the Indian subcontinent--is written with force, wit, and, at times, sorrow.
Male hanumans, in pursuit of genetic success, routinely kill babies sired by their competitors. The mothers of endangered infants counter with various strategems to deceive the males and prevent destruction of their own offspring. Competition and selfishness are dominant themes of langur society. Competition among males for access to females, competition among females for access to food resources, and disregard by one female for the well-being of another's infant--these are some very common examples. Yet there are also moments of heroic self-sacrifice, as when an elderly female rushes to defend her troop and its babies from an invading, infancticidal male.
The Langurs of Abu is the first book to analyze behavior of wild primates from the standpoint of both sexes. It is also a poignant and sophisticated exploration of primate behavior patterns from a feminist point of view. This book may inspire controversy; it will certainly be read with pleasure by anyone interested in animal behavior.
Richly illustrated with photographs, seven in full color.
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Mother Natureby Sarah Blaffer HrdyISBN 0099268035 (0-09-926803-5)
Softcover, Random House
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Mother Nature'Book summary:Mother Nature: A History of Mothers, Infants, and Natural Selection should be required reading for anyone who happens to be a human being. In it, Hrdy reveals the motivations behind some of our most primal and hotly contested behavioral patterns--those concerning gender roles, mate choice, sex, reproduction, and parenting--and the ideas and institutions that have grown up around them. She unblinkingly examines and illuminates such difficult subjects as control of reproductive rights, infanticide, "mother love," and maternal ambition with its ever-contested companions: child care and the limits of maternal responsibility. Without ever denying personal accountability, she points out that many of the patterns of abuse and neglect that we see in cultures around the world (including, of course, our own) are neither unpredictable nor maladaptive in evolutionary terms. "Mother" Nature, as she points out, is not particularly concerned with what we call "morality." The philosophical and political implications of our own deeply-rooted behaviors are for us to determine--which can be done all the better with the kind of understanding gleaned from this exhaustive work.
Hrdy's passion for this material is evident, and she is deeply aware of the personal stake she has here as a woman, a mother, and a professional. This highly accomplished author relies on her own extensive research background as well as the works of others in multiple disciplines (anthropology, primatology, sociobiology, psychology, and even literature). Despite the exhaustive documentation given to her conclusions (as witness the 140-plus-page notes and bibliography sections), the book unfolds in an exceptionally lucid, readable, and often humorous manner. It is a truly compelling read, highly recommended. --Katherine Ferguson [via]
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Mother Nature: Maternal Instincts and How They Shape the Human Speciesby Sarah Blaffer HrdyISBN 0345408934 (0-345-40893-4)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Mother Nature: Maternal Instincts and How They Shape the Human Species'Book summary:Mother Nature: A History of Mothers, Infants, and Natural Selection should be required reading for anyone who happens to be a human being. In it, Hrdy reveals the motivations behind some of our most primal and hotly contested behavioral patterns--those concerning gender roles, mate choice, sex, reproduction, and parenting--and the ideas and institutions that have grown up around them. She unblinkingly examines and illuminates such difficult subjects as control of reproductive rights, infanticide, "mother love," and maternal ambition with its ever-contested companions: child care and the limits of maternal responsibility. Without ever denying personal accountability, she points out that many of the patterns of abuse and neglect that we see in cultures around the world (including, of course, our own) are neither unpredictable nor maladaptive in evolutionary terms. "Mother" Nature, as she points out, is not particularly concerned with what we call "morality." The philosophical and political implications of our own deeply-rooted behaviors are for us to determine--which can be done all the better with the kind of understanding gleaned from this exhaustive work.
Hrdy's passion for this material is evident, and she is deeply aware of the personal stake she has here as a woman, a mother, and a professional. This highly accomplished author relies on her own extensive research background as well as the works of others in multiple disciplines (anthropology, primatology, sociobiology, psychology, and even literature). Despite the exhaustive documentation given to her conclusions (as witness the 140-plus-page notes and bibliography sections), the book unfolds in an exceptionally lucid, readable, and often humorous manner. It is a truly compelling read, highly recommended. --Katherine Ferguson [via]
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Mother Nature : Natural Selection and the Female of the Speciesby Sarah Blaffer HrdyISBN 0701166258 (0-7011-6625-8)
Hardcover, Random House
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The Woman That Never Evolvedby Sarah Blaffer HrdyISBN 0674955412 (0-674-95541-2)
Softcover, Harvard Univ Pr
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The Woman That Never Evolved: With a New Preface and Bibliographical Updatesby Sarah Blaffer HrdyISBN 0674955390 (0-674-95539-0)
Softcover, Harvard Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Woman That Never Evolved: With a New Preface and Bibliographical Updates'Book summary:What does it mean to be female? Sarah Blaffer Hrdy--a sociobiologist and a feminist--believes that evolutionary biology can provide some surprising answers. Surprising to those feminists who mistakenly think that biology can only work against women. And surprising to those biologists who incorrectly believe that natural selection operates only on males.
In The Woman That Never Evolved we are introduced to our nearest female relatives competitive, independent, sexually assertive primates who have every bit as much at stake in the evolutionary game as their male counterparts do. These females compete among themselves for rank and resources, but will bond together for mutual defense. They risk their lives to protect their young, yet consort with the very male who murdered their offspring when successful reproduction depends upon it. They tolerate other breeding females if food is plentiful, but chase them away when monogamy is the optimal strategy. When "promiscuity" is an advantage, female primates--like their human cousins--exhibit a sexual appetite that ensures a range of breeding partners. From case after case we are led to the conclusion that the sexually passive, noncompetitive, all-nurturing woman of prevailing myth never could have evolved within the primate order.
Yet males are almost universally dominant over females in primate species, and Homo sapiens is no exception. As we see from this book, women are in some ways the most oppressed of all female primates. Sarah Blaffer Hrdy is convinced that to redress sexual inequality in human societies, we must first understand its evolutionary origins. We cannot travel back in time to meet our own remote ancestors, but we can study those surrogates we have--the other living primates. If women --and not biology--are to control their own destiny, they must understand the past and, as this book shows us, the biological legacy they have inherited.
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Mutter Natur.by Sarah Blaffer HrdyISBN 3827002400 (3-8270-0240-0)
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