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Parenting for Primates / Harriet J Smith.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2009]Copyright date: ©2005Description: 1 online resource (448 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780674019386
  • 9780674043800
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 306.874
LOC classification:
  • HQ755.8 -- S6328 2005eb
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Prologue -- 1. Learning to Parent -- 2. The Primate Recipe for Mothering -- 3. The Diversity of Primate Fathering -- 4. The Babysitters' Club -- 5. Weaning Wars -- 6. The Quiet Years -- 7. Emptying the Nest -- 8. Parenting with Partners -- 9. Parenting Solo -- 10. The Dark Side of Parenting -- 11. How Much Do Parents Matter? -- Who's Who among Nonhuman Primates -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Index
Summary: In this natural history of primate parenting, Smith compares parenting by nonhuman and human primates. In a narrative rich with vivid anecdotes derived from interviews with primatologists, from her own experience breeding cottontop tamarin monkeys for over thirty years, and from her clinical psychology practice, Smith describes the ways that primates care for their offspring, from infancy through young adulthood.
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eBook eBook Biblioteca "Angelicum" Pont. Univ. S.Tommaso d'Aquino Nuvola online online - DeGruyter (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Online access Not for loan (Accesso limitato) Accesso per gli utenti autorizzati / Access for authorized users (dgr)9780674043800

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Prologue -- 1. Learning to Parent -- 2. The Primate Recipe for Mothering -- 3. The Diversity of Primate Fathering -- 4. The Babysitters' Club -- 5. Weaning Wars -- 6. The Quiet Years -- 7. Emptying the Nest -- 8. Parenting with Partners -- 9. Parenting Solo -- 10. The Dark Side of Parenting -- 11. How Much Do Parents Matter? -- Who's Who among Nonhuman Primates -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Index

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In this natural history of primate parenting, Smith compares parenting by nonhuman and human primates. In a narrative rich with vivid anecdotes derived from interviews with primatologists, from her own experience breeding cottontop tamarin monkeys for over thirty years, and from her clinical psychology practice, Smith describes the ways that primates care for their offspring, from infancy through young adulthood.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 30. Aug 2021)