Mothers and others : the evolutionary origins of mutual understanding / Sarah Blaffer Hrdy.

Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2009.

422 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Includes bibliographical references (p. [341]-402) and index.

Apes on a plane -- Why us and not them? -- Why it takes a village -- Novel developments -- Will the real pleistocene family please step forward? -- Meet the Alloparents -- Babies as sensory traps -- Grandmothers among others -- Childhood and the descent of man.