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A Natural History of Parenting: A Naturalist Looks at Parenting in the Animal World and Ours
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by Susan Allport
Sales Rank: 1122599
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Features
Cover Type: Paperback with 255 pages
Published by: AuthorHouse April 3, 2003
Written in: English
ISBN 10 Number: 0595271308
ISBN 13 Number: 978-0595271306
Book Dimensions:
8.2 x 5.1 x 0.7 inches
Weighs: 10.6 ounces
Product Description
Anyone who has ever held a baby-or observed a nesting bird-will find much to inform and entertain in this enchantingly written and thoroughly researched book. Allport revels in the marvelous diversity of care in the animal world. She shows us our place in that world with great humor, knowledge, and common sense.
About The Author
Susan Allport is an award-winning author specializing in food, natural history, and travel. Her books include The Primal Feast, Sermons in Stone, and Explorers of the Black Box. Allport also contributes essays and articles to The New York Times, Gastronomica, and The Hartford Courant, and she lectures at the American Museum of Natural History and numerous other locations.
Reader Reviews
This review is from: A Natural History of Parenting: A Naturalist Looks at Parenting in the Animal World and Ours (Paperback)
Naturalist Susan Allport takes a look at parenting in all animals, humans included, from a genetic evolutionary perspective. She discusses the different strategies animals have for choosing a mate, choosing a nest, hatching eggs versus bearing live young, and rearing their young. With every stage of exploration, she includes a discussion of how humans fit into this complex world. The Good and the Bad: This was a very good book, and I'm considering it as a present for parents I know. One of the nice things about this book is that Allport manages to insert her own experiences into the book without seeming egotistical. I'm not sure whether women have a special talent for this, or whether my own male ego is offended by the intrusions of other male egos into my reading material, but I definitely notice a gender trend with regards to that quality of nature writing. Allport manages to touch on a lot of interesting material in detail, with only a slight tendency towards dryness. She mixes in a good amount of interesting examples with her discussion of selfish gene theories. In my option, though, she may not have had to take us through the evolution of scientific thinking, and I would have rather had the information confined to what we think now. The sole exception to this reservation is when she is talking about how a flawed scientific study was the basis for a revolution in birthing practices in hospitals in England and around the world. What I learned: So much information was crammed into this book that it's too much to provide all of the examples that are interesting. But a few standouts include: almost every aspect of parenting behavior has the purpose of reproducing the genes of the parent, whether this means selfless devotion to the young, or the abandonment of an offspring, to that offspring's fatal detriment. This is true both of behavior and physiology. Humans have evolved to give "premature" birth to an undeveloped baby with an amazing capacity for development and learning.
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