Mother Nature: Maternal Instincts and How They Shape the Human Species

“[A] magisterial survey of childbearing through the ages . . . It wams the heart to witness the fierce loyalty this sophisticated feminist professor of anthropology . . . bears towards her paleolithic sisters.”—San Francisco Chronicle

Maternal instinct—the all-consuming, utterly selfless love that mothers lavish on their children—has long been assumed to be an innate, indeed defining element of a woman’s nature. But is it? In this provocative, groundbreaking book, renowned anthropologist (an...