The Creatures' Guide to Caring: How Animal Parents Teach Us That Humans Were Born to Care - Couverture rigide

Preston, Elizabeth

 
9780593657102: The Creatures' Guide to Caring: How Animal Parents Teach Us That Humans Were Born to Care
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ISBN 10 : 0593657101 ISBN 13 : 9780593657102
Editeur : Viking, 2026

Synopsis

A lively and revelatory journey through the evolution of caretaking on Earth, from animal parents to modern-day humans, making the case that caring for children and each other made us who we are

Poison frog fathers carry tadpoles on their backs. Killer whale grandmothers hunt to feed their adult sons. Tropical birds incubate their friends' eggs. Spider moms let their hatchlings eat them alive. Around the world, animals from the exotic to the familiar go to astonishing lengths to keep their young alive. Their biology, brains and behaviors show us what we have in common with other creatures, as well as what's unique about Homo sapiens.

With warmth, humor, and occasional run-ins with bodily fluids, science journalist Elizabeth Preston leads a highly accessible tour of cutting-edge research into how and why we and other animals care for young. She discovers that humans evolved to raise our kids in cooperative groups, and that the tools we've inherited for caretaking aren't only for moms or dads—they're the basis for our human society.

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À propos de l'auteur

Elizabeth Preston is a science journalist who contributes regularly to The New York Times and has written for Science, The Boston Globe, The Atlantic, Orion, Slate, Audubon, Discover, National Geographic, and others. She is a winner of the American Association for the Advancement of Science’s Kavli Science Journalism Gold Award. Preston is also a humor writer whose work has appeared in outlets such as McSweeney’s Internet Tendency, Parents, and Real Simple, and was the editor of Muse, a magazine about science and ideas for kids. She lives in Massachusetts.

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Éditeur
Viking
Date d'édition
2026
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0593657101
ISBN 13 
9780593657102
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
416
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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9781915590657: The Creatures’ Guide to Caring: How Animal Parents Teach Us That Humans Were Born to Care

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ISBN 10 :  1915590655 ISBN 13 :  9781915590657
Editeur : Scribe Publications, 2026
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