Growing Up Human
The Evolution of Childhood
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Product details:
- Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing (UK)
- Date of Publication 18 January 2024
- Number of Volumes Paperback
- ISBN 9781472975720
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages384 pages
- Size 214x134x30 mm
- Weight 380 g
- Language English 472
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Long description:
Brings the science of biological anthropology to bear on understanding how our evolutionary history has shaped a phenomenon everyone has experienced - childhood.
Tracking deep into our evolutionary history, anthropological science has begun to unravel one particular feature that sets us apart from the many, many animals that came before us - our uniquely long childhoods. Growing Up Human looks at how we have diverged from our ancestral roots to stay 'forever young' - or at least what seems like forever - and how the evolution of childhood is a critical part of the human story.
Beginning with a look at the ways animals invest in their offspring, the book moves through the many steps of making a baby, from pair-bonding to hidden ovulation, points where our species has repeatedly stepped off the standard primate path. From the mystery of monogamy to the minefield of modern parenting advice, biological anthropologist Brenna Hassett reveals how differences between humans and our closest cousins lead to our messy mating systems, dangerous pregnancies, and difficult births, and what these tell us about the kind of babies we are trying to build.
Using observations of our closest primate relatives, the tiny relics of childhood that come to us from the archaeological record, and the bones and teeth of our ancestors, science has started to unravel the evolution of our childhood right down the fossil record. In our species investment doesn't stop at birth, and as Growing Up Human reveals, we can compare every aspect of our care and feeding, from the chemical composition of our milk to our fondness for formal education from ancient times onwards, in order to understand just what we evolved our weird and wonderful childhoods for.
Table of Contents:
Chapter 1: Mary, Mary, Quite Contrary: An Introduction
Chapter 2: Pop! Goes the Weasel: Life History and Why it Matters
Chapter 3: Two Little Monkeys Jumping on the Bed: Making More Monkeys
Chapter 4: A Froggy Would A-Courting Go: How Weird is Monogamy?
Chapter 5: Georgie Porgie, Pudding and Pie: Conception and Fertility and Fat
Chapter 6: Bake Me a Cake as Fast as You Can: the Joys of Gestation
Chapter 7: Cackle, Cackle, Mother Goose: Having a Baby
Chapter 8: See-Saw, Margery Daw: Cultural Adaptations to Birth
Chapter 9: Bye, Baby Bunting: Caring for a Child the Old-Fashioned Way
Chapter 10: Old Mother Hubbard's Cupboard: the Magic of Milk
Chapter 11: Hey Diddle Diddle: the Cultural Life of Milk
