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Titolo |
Costly and Cute : Helpless Infants and Human Evolution / / edited by Wenda R. Trevathan and Karen R. Rosenberg |
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Santa Fe, [New Mexico] ; ; Albuquerque, [New Mexico] : , : School for Advanced Research Press : , : University of New Mexico Press, , 2016 |
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©2016 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (334 pages) : illustrations, tables |
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Collana |
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School for Advanced Research advanced seminar series |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Parent-Child Relations |
Infant, Newborn - growth & development |
Biological Evolution |
Parent and child |
Infants - Growth |
Infants - Care |
Electronic books. |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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The "obstetrical dilemma" unraveled / Holly M. Dunsworth -- Primate birth at the extremes : exploring obstetric and metabolic constraints / Marcia Ponce de León and Christoph P. E. Zollikofer -- Brains, birth, bipedalism and the mosaic evolution of the helpless infant / Jeremy M. DeSilva -- Infancy by design : maternal metabolism, hormonal signals, and the active management of infant growth by human milk / E. A. Quinn -- Baby-the-trendsetter : three evo-devo trends and their expression in Asperger syndrome / Dean Falk -- Plastic and heterogeneous : postnatal developmental changes in the human brain / Katerina Semendeferi and Kari L. Hanson -- Testosterone, fatherhood, and social networks / Lee T. Gettler -- Of marmosets, men, and the transformative power of babies / Sarah Hrdy -- Forget ye not the mother-infant dyad! : within a world of allomothers and maternal agency, do mothers still stand out? / James J. McKenna. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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The contributors to this volume propose that the "helpless infant" has |
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played a role in human evolution equal in importance to those of "man the hunter" and "woman the gatherer.". |
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