May 9, 2010
Recent Perspectives on the Family
Mothers and Others: The Evolutionary Origins of Mutual Understanding, by Sarah Blaffer Hrdy (Harvard University Press)
What explains the human capacity for empathy? Evolutionists have long assumed that the capacity to monitor the feelings of others is an adaptation that allows one group to cooperate in the defense of itself from another group. Hrdy, a professor emerita of anthropology at the University of California at Davis, offers an alternative explanation: cooperative and
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