Parenting for Primates / / Harriet J Smith.
In this natural history of primate parenting, Smith compares parenting by nonhuman and human primates. In a narrative rich with vivid anecdotes derived from interviews with primatologists, from her own experience breeding cottontop tamarin monkeys for over thirty years, and from her clinical psychol...
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Place / Publishing House: | Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2009] ©2005 |
Year of Publication: | 2009 |
Language: | English |
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (448 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Prologue
- 1. Learning to Parent
- 2. The Primate Recipe for Mothering
- 3. The Diversity of Primate Fathering
- 4. The Babysitters' Club
- 5. Weaning Wars
- 6. The Quiet Years
- 7. Emptying the Nest
- 8. Parenting with Partners
- 9. Parenting Solo
- 10. The Dark Side of Parenting
- 11. How Much Do Parents Matter?
- Who's Who among Nonhuman Primates
- Notes
- Acknowledgments
- Index