Sarah Blaffer Hrdy(UC Davis) discusses how reliance on allomaternal assistance to rear young rendered mothers increasingly sensitive to signals of how much social support she and her offspring could expect. Additionally, multiple offspring, with overlapping periods of dependency, meant that mothers might be forced to choose between offspring when investing. Paternal and alloparental responses to infants would also be facultatively expressed, depending on probable relatedness, alternatives available, past experience and degree of exposure to infantile appeals. (#28217)

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Anthropology

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   CARTA: Imagination and Human Origins: Sheldon Brown - What Is Imagination?
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   CARTA: Imagination and Human Origins - Sheldon Brown, Agustín Fuentes, Caren Walker
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   CARTA: Imagination and Human Origins - Lyn Wadley, Maurice Bloch, Lera Boroditsky

Behavioral, Human Development, and Cognitive Sciences

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   CARTA: Extraordinary Variations of the Human Mind: Lessons for Anthropogeny: Isabelle Peretz: Born to be Musical: What We Can Learn from Congenital Anomalies
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   CARTA: Extraordinary Variations of the Human Mind: Lessons for Anthropogeny: Darold Treffert: The Incredible Savant Syndrome
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   CARTA: Awareness of Death and Personal Mortality: Implications for Anthropogeny:What is Fear? And Is Fear of Death Really a “Fear”?

Evolution

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   CARTA presents Impact of Early Life Deprivation on Cognition: Implications for the Evolutionary Origins of the Human Mind - Conclusion and Questions and Answers
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   CARTA presents Impact of Early Life Deprivation on Cognition – Charles A. Nelson, Faraneh Vargha-Khadem, Ann Masten
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   Individual Differences in Language Development and Disorders - CARTA presents Impact of Early Life Deprivation on Cognition – Paula Tallal