A Scientific American interview with famed primatologist and evolutionary theorist Sarah Blaffer Hrdy.
"If we really want to raise Darwin’s consciousness we need to expand
evolutionary perspectives to include the Darwinian selection pressures
on mothers and on infants. So much of our human narrative is about
selection pressures but, when you stop to think and parse the
hypotheses, they’re really about selection pressures on males: hunting
hypotheses or lethal intergroup conflict hypotheses to explain human
brains. Well, does that mean that females don’t have brains?"
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