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47/100Critics
87/100Scholars
Author:
Sarah Blaffer Hrdy
Publisher:
Princeton University Press
Date:
May 14, 2024
An account of male nurturing, explaining how and why men are biologically transformed when they care for babies.
What The Reviewers Say
Hrdy has taken one of the final big myths of human evolution – that childcare by men is peripheral or unimportant – and knocked it firmly on its head.
A rare science writer who combines mastery of her field with warm, readable prose.
To a lay reader, some of Hrdy’s examples can be hard to appreciate as anything more than a memorable anecdote. But patterns emerge, as well as a sense that parental roles are less fixed than we might assume.
I turned to it seeking validation and found something much better: the complete destabilization of my concept of paternity.
