Events: detail
Mothers and Others: The Origin of Emotionally Modern Humans
- Hosted by:
- Harvard Museum of Natural History
- Speaker:
-
Sarah Blaffer Hrdy
- Starts:
- November 18, 2009 at 06:00 pm
- Ends:
- November 18, 2009 at 07:00 pm
- Location:
- Harvard Museum of Natural History, 26 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA. 02138
- Maps:
Description
Anthropologist and primate sociobiologist Sarah Blaffer Hrdy studies how the apes in the line leading to the genus Homo became so “other-regarding” and potentially cooperative. Hrdy will discuss her newest book, Mothers and Others, in which she emphasizes the need to consider our Pleistocene ancestors’ peculiar mode of child-rearing. Reception and book signing to follow.
Cosponsored with the Department of Human Evolutionary Biology at Harvard and the Harvard University Press.
- Registration required:
- No
- Free:
- Yes
Additional information
Free and open to the public.
