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Science 26 June 2009:
Vol. 324. no. 5935, pp. 1646 - 1647
DOI: 10.1126/science.1175159
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Human Evolution:

Caring Cooperators

Gillian R. Brown

Mothers and Others The Evolutionary Origins of Mutual Understanding by Sarah Blaffer Hrdy Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA, 2009. 430 pp. $29.95, £19.95, {euro}21. ISBN 9780674032996.

Hrdy argues that human capacity for understanding arose from the cooperative nature of our "complicated and contingent form of childrearing."

The reviewer is at the School of Psychology, University of St. Andrews, South Street, St. Andrews, Fife KY16 9JP, UK.

E-mail: grb4{at}st-andrews.ac.uk

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