Father time : a natural history of men and babies
(Book)
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Contributors
Princeton University Press, publisher.
Published
Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [2024].
ISBN
9780691238777, 0691238774
Physical Desc
vii, 421 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
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Published
Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [2024].
Format
Book
Language
English
ISBN
9780691238777, 0691238774
Notes
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 321-407) and index.
Description
"A masterful synthesis of how it came to be that today men are taking care of very young babies given that this is unprecedented in the history of mammals, apes, and humans"--,Provided by publisher.
Description
"A sweeping account of male nurturing, explaining how and why men are biologically transformed when they care for babies It 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 labor: 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? Puzzled 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."In Father Time, 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 realized men possessed. In 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"--,Provided by publisher.
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Hrdy, S. B. (2024). Father time: a natural history of men and babies . Princeton University Press.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Hrdy, Sarah Blaffer, 1946-. 2024. Father Time: A Natural History of Men and Babies. Princeton University Press.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Hrdy, Sarah Blaffer, 1946-. Father Time: A Natural History of Men and Babies Princeton University Press, 2024.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Hrdy, Sarah Blaffer. Father Time: A Natural History of Men and Babies Princeton University Press, 2024.
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