'It takes a village': the evolution of human nature
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What most distinguishes us from other apes? Our naked flesh? Language? Our empathic ways? Acclaimed anthropologist and sociobiologist Sarah Blaffer Hrdy has spent her long research career upending assumptions about sex, reproduction and the evolution of human nature. She joins Natasha Mitchell to discuss her new book Mothers and Others, and why it took a village to generate a big brained human child.
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Guests
Sarah Blaffer Hrdy
Professor Emerita
Department of Anthropology
University of California, Davis
http://www.citrona.com/hrdy/index.htmlFurther Information
All in the Mind blog post for your comments and engagement
Posts to the All in the Mind blog are subject to ABC Online's Conditions of Use.Charles Darwin Symposium, Charles Darwin University
September 2009. Sarah Blaffer Hrdy was a participantReview of Mothers and Others by Natalie Angier, New York Times, 2009
Publications
Title: Mothers and Others: The Evolutionary Origins of Mutual Understanding
Author: Sarah Blaffer Hrdy
Publisher: Harvard University Press, 2009
ISBN-10: 0674032993Title: Mother Nature: Maternal Instincts and How they Shape the Human Species
Author: Sarah Blaffer Hrdy
Publisher: Ballantine Books; 1 edition (September 5, 2000)
ISBN-10: 0345408934Title: The Woman That Never Evolved: With a New Preface and Bibliographical Updates, Revised Edition
Author: Sarah Blaffer Hrdy
Publisher: Harvard University Press (December 20, 1999)
ISBN-10: 0674955390Title: Infanticide: Comparative and Evolutionary Perspectives
Author: Editors, G. Hausfater and S. Hrdy
Publisher: Aldine (July 1984)
ISBN-10: 0202020223Title: The Langurs of Abu Female and Male Strategies of Reproduction
Author: Sarah Blaffer Hrdy
Publisher: Harvard University Press, 1978
ISBN 10: 0-674-51057-7Title: Black-Man of Zinacantan: A Central American Legend
Author: Sarah Blaffer Hrdy
Publisher: University of Texas Press (1972)
ISBN-10: 0292707010Presenter
Natasha Mitchell
Tuesday, October 06, 2009
All in the Mind - 'It takes a village': the evolution of human nature
Cool episode - as much as we like to think of ourselves as "rugged individualists" in this country, the reality is that we are socially embedded human beings, and if we weren't we wouldn't have evolved as far as we have.
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