{"title":"Sarah Blaffer Hrdy","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSarah Blaffer Hrdy\u003c\/strong\u003e offers a thought-provoking exploration of human nature through the lenses of evolutionary biology and anthropology. Her works, including titles such as \u003cem\u003eFather Time\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eMothers and Others\u003c\/em\u003e, delve into the complexities of parenting, social behaviour, and the evolutionary forces shaping human societies.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eReaders can expect insightful discussions that intersect \u003cem\u003escience, philosophy, and psychology\u003c\/em\u003e, challenging conventional ideas about family dynamics and our biological heritage. Hrdy’s writing invites reflection on both the natural world and the human condition, making her books valuable for those interested in education and the deeper questions of life.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"father-time-by-sarah-blaffer-hrdy-9780691238777","title":"Father Time","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA sweeping account of male nurturing, explaining how and why men are biologically transformed when they care for babies.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIt has long seemed self-evident that women care for babies and men do other things. Hasn't it always been so? When evolutionary science came along, it rubber-stamped this venerable division of labour: mammalian males evolved to compete for status and mates, while females were purpose-built to gestate, suckle, and otherwise nurture the victors' offspring. But come the twenty-first century, increasing numbers of men are tending babies, sometimes right from birth. How can this be happening?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003ePuzzled and dazzled by the tender expertise of new fathers around the world—several in her own family—celebrated evolutionary anthropologist and primatologist Sarah Blaffer Hrdy set out to trace the deep history of male nurturing and explain a surprising departure from everything she had assumed to be 'normal.'\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eFather Time\u003c\/i\u003e, Hrdy draws on a wealth of research to argue that this ongoing transformation in men is not only cultural, but profoundly biological. Men in prolonged intimate contact with babies exhibit responses nearly identical to those in the bodies and brains of mothers. They develop caring potential few realised men possessed.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn her quest to explain how men came to nurture babies, Hrdy travels back through millions of years of human, primate, and mammalian evolution, then back further still to the earliest vertebrates—all while taking into account recent economic and social trends and technological innovations and incorporating new findings from neuroscience, genetics, endocrinology, and more. The result is a masterful synthesis of evolutionary and historical perspectives that expands our understanding of what it means to be a man and what the implications might be for society and our species.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Hachette Aotearoa New Zealand","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47424111640812,"sku":"9780691238777","price":57.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9780691238777.jpg?v=1774769120"},{"product_id":"mothers-and-others-by-sarah-blaffer-hrdy-9780674060326","title":"Mothers and Others","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSomewhere in Africa, more than a million years ago, a line of apes began to rear their young differently than their Great Ape ancestors. From this new form of care came new ways of engaging and understanding each other. How such singular human capacities evolved, and how they have kept us alive for thousands of generations, is the mystery revealed in this bold and wide-ranging new vision of human emotional evolution.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eMothers and Others\u003c\/em\u003e finds the key in the primatologically unique length of human childhood. If the young were to survive in a world of scarce food, they needed to be cared for, not only by their mothers but also by siblings, aunts, fathers, friends—and, with any luck, grandmothers. Out of this complicated and contingent form of child-rearing, Sarah Hrdy argues, came the human capacity for understanding others. Mothers and others teach us who will care, and who will not.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFrom its opening vision of \"apes on a plane\"; to descriptions of baby care among marmosets, chimpanzees, wolves, and lions; to explanations about why men in hunter-gatherer societies hunt together, \u003cem\u003eMothers and Others\u003c\/em\u003e is compellingly readable. But it is also an intricately knit argument that ever since the Pleistocene, it has taken a village to raise children—and how that gave our ancient ancestors the first push on the path toward becoming emotionally modern human beings.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47487219597548,"sku":"9780674060326","price":73.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/b2d11338606ee1a6aeff81770c9237c7.jpg?v=1775778139"},{"product_id":"father-time-by-sarah-blaffer-hrdy-9780691238791","title":"Father Time","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA sweeping account of male nurturing, explaining how and why men are biologically transformed when they care for babies.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIt has long seemed self-evident that women care for babies and men do other things. Hasn't it always been so? 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