Mothers and Others: The Evolutionary Origins of Mutual Understanding

“A brilliant work on a profoundly important subject. The leading scientific authority on motherhood has come through again.” —E. O. Wilson

“Thought provoking…An engaging and compelling argument [that] requires us to rethink entrenched views about how we came to be human.” —Science

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...