Link: Barbara King reviews the new book, Grandmother Fish
Barbara King on the NPR “Cosmos and Culture” blog reviews the children’s book about evolution, Grandmother Fish: a child’s first book of Evolution: “When Sho...
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"Cavemom parenting"
Heather Turgeon, in Babble, writes a note of skepticism about the “natural” mode of parenting: “The Science of Cavemom Parenting and Whether You Should Try ...
Spielke profile
The New York Times has a long profile of developmental psychologist Elizabeth Spielke, whose work with babies has opened a window on early cognition (“Insigh...
Kids leave their traces in caves with art
Several stories last week related the story (from a conference talk by Jessica Cooney) about evidence that very young children had left finger grooves in the...
Developing the sharing sense
Following on after yesterday’s post about hunter-gatherer population structure, I ended with the proposal that cooperation may be a “cognitive technology” in...
Alloparenting after Hrdy
Sarah Blaffer Hrdy has written a new book, Mothers and Others: The Evolutionary Origins of Mutual Understanding to be released this spring, and the New York ...