Becoming Human Part 3: Did cooperative childcare make us human? Morna Finnegan, Darcia Narvaez, ... 

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The old proverb says: ‘It takes a village to raise a child’, and in her outstanding book Mothers and Others, anthropologist and primatologist Sarah Hrdy argues that cooperative childcare was a key step in human evolution, and the basis of the evolution of mutual mind-reading. What are the implications of becoming human as the ‘babysitting’ ape for childcare today? How did this important transition revolutionise evolving human society?
Sarah Hrdy ‘Meet the Alloparents’ www.naturalhistorymag.com/htm... Darcia Narvaez ‘Growing children and adults: What does species typicality look like?’ culturico.com/2021/04/24/grow... Mary Tarsha and D Narvaez ‘The Evolved Nest: A partnership system that fosters child wellbeing’ pubs.lib.umn.edu/index.php/ij...
Morna Finnegan, author of many articles on gender, ritual and power; Darcia Narvaez, Professor Emerita of Psychology, Notre Dame University; Camilla Power, longtime Senior Lecturer in Anthropology at University of East London
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