Baby Wars
Parenthood and Family Strife
Fourth Estate Ltd (Publisher)
Published on 5. February 1998
Book
Paperback/Softback
320 pages
978-1-85702-634-4 (ISBN)
Description
Focusing on the series of conflicts present between mother and father, between parent and child, and between children, the author follows up the ideas from "Sperm Wars", his investigation into the evolutionary biology of conception. Discomfort of pregnancy, child abuse, sibling rivalry, incest, arranged marriage, child fostering, adoption, and the trials of adolescence, are all deviations from the cliched dream of the contented nuclear family. As seen by Baker, all these situations generate their own particular Darwinian benefits and problems. Here he dramatizes these events and then explains the evolutionary biological behaviour of each of the characters.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
HarperCollins Publishers
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 153 mm
Weight
480 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-85702-634-4 (9781857026344)
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