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Mom Genes: Inside the New Science of Our Ancient Maternal Instinct
Bottom of the pile
22
/100
I Index Overall Rating
Readers
26/100Critics
17/100Scholars
Author:
Abigail Tucker
Publisher:
Gallery Books
Date:
April 27, 2021
Reveals the hard science behind our tenderest maternal impulses, tackling questions such as whether a new mom's brain ever really bounces back, why mothers are destined to mimic their own moms (or not), and how maternal aggression makes females the world's most formidable creatures.
What The Reviewers Say
While taking the reader on a traipse through various laboratories, Tucker tosses off quips like a class clown on a science field trip. She’s cutesy about her subject.
... an impressive synthesis of the current state of 'mom science,' a fairly new and fecund field that mostly considers how mothers are different from other people and similar to each other.
Meticulously researched and well-documented, Mom Genes is one part memoir (Tucker intersperses her own experiences as a white mother of four children), and one part incredibly readable popular science.
... humorous.
