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Maternal instinct - the all-consuming, utterly selfless love that moms lavish on their children - is definitely assumed to be an innate, indeed defining element of your woman's mother nature. But is it? Within this provocative, groundbreaking audiobook, renowned anthropologist (and mother) Sarah Blaffer Hrdy shares a radical new eyesight of motherhood and its crucial role in individual evolution. Hrdy pieces away stereotypes and gender-biased common myths to show that traditional views of maternal patterns are essentially wishful thinking codified as objective observation. As Hrdy argues, definately not being "selfless," successful primate moms have always put together nurturing with ambition, mother love with sexual love, ambivalence with devotion. In fact all moms, in the struggle to assure both their own survival and that of their offspring, deal nimbly with fighting needs and conflicting strategies. In her nuanced, stunningly original interpretation of the relationships between mothers and fathers, mothers and newborns, and moms and their sociable organizations, Hrdy offers not only a revolutionary new interpretation to motherhood but an important new understanding of human development. Written with elegance and clearness, suffused with the knowledge of a long and distinguished profession, Mother Characteristics is a profound contribution to your understanding of who were as a types - and why we have become this way.
