The Woman That Never Evolved - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Woman That Never Evolved write by Sarah Blaffer Hrdy. This book was released on 2009-07-01. The Woman That Never Evolved available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. What does it mean to be female? Sarah Blaffer Hrdy--a sociobiologist and a feminist--believes that evolutionary biology can provide some surprising answers. Surprising to those feminists who mistakenly think that biology can only work against women. And surprising to those biologists who incorrectly believe that natural selection operates only on males. In The Woman That Never Evolved we are introduced to our nearest female relatives competitive, independent, sexually assertive primates who have every bit as much at stake in the evolutionary game as their male counterparts do. These females compete among themselves for rank and resources, but will bond together for mutual defense. They risk their lives to protect their young, yet consort with the very male who murdered their offspring when successful reproduction depends upon it. They tolerate other breeding females if food is plentiful, but chase them away when monogamy is the optimal strategy. When "promiscuity" is an advantage, female primates--like their human cousins--exhibit a sexual appetite that ensures a range of breeding partners. From case after case we are led to the conclusion that the sexually passive, noncompetitive, all-nurturing woman of prevailing myth never could have evolved within the primate order. Yet males are almost universally dominant over females in primate species, and Homo sapiens is no exception. As we see from this book, women are in some ways the most oppressed of all female primates. Sarah Blaffer Hrdy is convinced that to redress sexual inequality in human societies, we must first understand its evolutionary origins. We cannot travel back in time to meet our own remote ancestors, but we can study those surrogates we have--the other living primates. If women --and not biology--are to control their own destiny, they must understand the past and, as this book shows us, the biological legacy they have inherited.
The Woman that Never Evolved
The Woman that Never Evolved - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Woman that Never Evolved write by Sarah Blaffer Hrdy. This book was released on 1981. The Woman that Never Evolved available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The author dispels some of the myths about the nature of females and female sexuality, and suggests new hypotheses aboutthe evolution of women.
The Woman that Never Evolved
The Woman that Never Evolved - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Woman that Never Evolved write by Sarah Blaffer Hrdy. This book was released on 1999. The Woman that Never Evolved available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Mothers and Others
Mothers and Others - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Mothers and Others write by Sarah Blaffer Hrdy. This book was released on 2011-04-15. Mothers and Others available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Somewhere 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. Mothers and Others 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 childrearing, Sarah Hrdy argues, came the human capacity for understanding others. Mothers and others teach us who will care, and who will not. From 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, Mothers and Others 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.
Exercised
Exercised - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Exercised write by Daniel Lieberman. This book was released on 2021-01-05. Exercised available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The book tells the story of how we never evolved to exercise - to do voluntary physical activity for the sake of health. Using his own research and experiences throughout the world, the author recounts how and why humans evolved to walk, run, dig, and do other necessary and rewarding physical activities while avoiding needless exertion. Drawing on insights from biology and anthropology, the author suggests how we can make exercise more enjoyable, rather that shaming and blaming people for avoiding it
