三民網路書店 / 搜尋結果

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 mistakenl

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 thi

Sexual combat is not a monopoly of the human species. As Sarah Blaffer Hrdy argues in this spellbinding book, war between male and female animals has deep roots in evolutionary history. Her account of

女人生來就具備母性本能嗎？母親出於本能而愛護子女，是東西方文化一向崇尚的理想，甚至科學界也普遍贊同，如今卻越來越受爭議。本書以全新的視野觀察母親的行為，並探討這新的理解角度如何改變科學家對人類演化的思考。 莎拉•布萊弗•赫迪教授援引人類學、史學、文學、發展心理學、動物行為學等多方面的知識，從「生物」與「遺傳」兩個不同的層面檢視母性本能。她剔除傳統刻板印象中對女性本質隱含的偏

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

Recent field studies of a variety of mammalian species reveal a surprisingly high frequency of infanticide--the killing of unweaned or otherwise maternally dependent offspring. Similarly, studies of b

Over the last decade, there has been increasing debate as to whether feminism and evolutionary psychology can co-exist. Such debates often conclude with a resounding "no," often on the grounds that th

Attachment and bonding are evolved processes; the mechanisms that permit thedevelopment of selective social bonds are assumed to be very ancient, based on neural circuitryrooted deep in mammalian evol