CARTA: Birth to Grandmotherhood: Childrearing in Human Evolution – Wenda Trevathan: Birth and the Newborn Infant

31/05/2016 18 min
CARTA: Birth to Grandmotherhood: Childrearing in Human Evolution – Wenda Trevathan: Birth and the Newborn Infant

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In this talk, Wenda Trevathan of New Mexico State University focuses on energetic and biomechanical factors that converge at the time of birth to set the stage for an enormously expanded role of child-rearing in human evolution. Series: "CARTA - Center for Academic Research and Training in Anthropogeny" [Humanities] [Science] [Show ID: 28029]