A review by mamakass
Mother Nature: Maternal Instincts and How They Shape the Human Species by Sarah Hrdy

5.0

I LOVE this book. It was revolutionary and world-view changing for me. In it, Sarah Blaffer Hrdy challenges patriarchal assumptions in evolutionary theory and social science to discuss the way females impact the evolution of a species through their parenting, as well as how babies impact their parenting and likelihood to survive through various evolved and behavioral traits. She also discussed the uncomfortable but very real and long history of child abandonment and infanticide, and how mothers use a variety of factors when deciding how much care to give each child; challenging the assumption that mothers evolved to self-sacrificially love every baby they have.
It is amazing.