"In her excellent book Father Time: A Natural History of Men and Babies, anthropologist and primatologist Sarah Blaffer Hrdy . . . explores the question of whether male nurturing and care for the next generation is biologically pre-programmed and possible across a whole range of species in the animal kingdom, and, if so, what this might mean not only for human parental roles, but also for society itself."---Sarah Hawkes, The Lancet

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Sarah Blaffer Hrdy is professor emerita of anthropology at the University of California, Davis. She is the author of The Woman That Never Evolved, Mother Nature, and Mothers and Others: The Evolutionary Origins of Mutual Understanding.

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"A masterful synthesis of how it came to be that today men are taking care of very young babies given that this is unprecedented in the history of mammals, apes, and humans"--