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Costly and Cute : Helpless Infants and Human Evolution
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."
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Albuquerque, UNITED STATES :
University of New Mexico Press Published in association with School for Advanced Research,
2016.
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Front Cover; SAR Series Page; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; List of Illustrations; 1: Human Evolution and the Helpless Infant / Wenda R. Trevathan and Karen R. Rosenberg; 2: The Obstetrical Dilemma Unraveled / Holly M. Dunsworth; 3: Primate Birth at the Extremes: Exploring Obstetric and Metabolic Constraints / Marcia Ponce de León and Christoph P.E. Zollikofer; 4: Brains, Birth, Bipedalism, and the Mosaic Evolution of the Helpless Human Infant / Jeremy M. DeSilva.
- 5: Infancy by Design: Maternal Metabolism, Hormonal Signals, and the Active Management of Infant Growth by Human Milk / E.A. Quinn6: Baby the Trendsetter: Three Evo-Devo Trends and Their Expressionin Asperger Syndrome / Dean Falk; 7: Plastic and Heterogeneous: Postnatal Developmental Changes in the Human Brain / Katerina Semendeferi and Kari L. Hanson; 8: Testosterone, Fatherhood, and Social Networks / Lee T. Gettler; 9: Of Marmosets, Men, and the Transformative Power of Babies / Sarah B. Hrdy.
- 10: Forget Ye Not the Mother-Infant Dyad!: In a World of Allomothers and Maternal Agency, Do Mothers Still Stand Out? / James J. McKennaBibliography; Contributors; Index; Back Cover.