It has long seemed self-evident that women care for babies and men do other things. Hasn鈥檛 it always been so? When evolutionary science came along, it rubber-stamped this venerable division of labor: mammalian males evolved to compete for status and mates, while females were purpose-built to gestate, suckle, and otherwise nurture the victors鈥� offspring. But come the twenty-first century, increasing numbers of men are tending babies, sometimes right from birth. How can this be happening? Puzzled and dazzled by the tender expertise of new fathers around the world鈥攕everal in her own family鈥攃elebrated evolutionary anthropologist and primatologist Sarah Blaffer Hrdy set out to trace the deep history of male nurturing and explain a surprising departure from everything she had assumed to be 鈥渘ormal.鈥�
The audiobook is narrated by Katherine Fenton. Start listening to a sample chapter here.
About the Author
Sarah Blaffer Hrdy is professor emerita of anthropology at the University of California, Davis. She is the author of The Woman That Never Evolved, Mother Nature, and Mothers and Others: The Evolutionary Origins of Mutual Understanding.
About the Narrator
Katherine Fenton is an award-winning voice actor and the narrator of many audiobooks, including Ira Levin鈥檚 Rosemary鈥檚 Baby, Elizabeth Gilbert鈥檚 The Last American Man, and The Shock Doctrine by Naomi Klein.