Our species thrivival and evolution is correlated with alloparenting.
Alloparenting is the primary behavioural distinction between hominin and primate species, and is closely associated or correlated with the enlarged forebrain which enables emotional self regulation, creativity, third mind awareness....
Alloparenting—the care of offspring by individuals other than biological parents—is a defining hallmark of human evolution. By allowing mothers to share the immense energetic burden of raising altricial (helpless) infants, with the adolescent and adult community, alloparenting enabled our ancestors to better regulate birth intervals and evolve exceptionally large brains, laying the foundation for modern human societies.
Egalitarian approaches are rooted in care and empathy.
The affiliative and reward systems that support biological parenting are also active in alloparents. The Neurobiological Causes and Effects of Alloparenting highlights how alloparental caregiving triggers neurobiological bond formation, ensuring vulnerable infants receive high-quality care even if biological parents are temporarily absent.
Alloparenting mitigates against concentration of power notably the absence of hierarchy systems and patriarchy common in egalitarian societies
Mothers and Others :
https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt1c84czb
"Mothers and Others is a brilliant work on a profoundly important subject. The leading scientific authority on motherhood has come through again." -E. O. Wilson
Somewhere in Africa, more than a million years ago, a line of apes began to rear their young differently than their Great Ape ancestors. From this new form of care came new ways of engaging and understanding each other. How such singular human capacities evolved, and how they have kept us alive for thousands of generations, is the mystery revealed in this bold and wide-ranging new vision of human emotional evolution.
Mothers and Others finds the key in the primatologically unique length of human childhood. If the young were to survive in a world of scarce food, they needed to be cared for, not only by their mothers but also by siblings, aunts, fathers, friends-and, with any luck, grandmothers.
Out of this complicated and contingent form of childrearing, Sarah Hrdy argues, came the human capacity for understanding others.
Mothers and others teach us who will care, and who will not.
Elon Musk's statement that 'The greatest weakness of Western Civilisation
"Mothers and Others is a brilliant work on a profoundly important subject. The leading scientific authority on motherhood has come through again." -E. O. Wilson
Somewhere in Africa, more than a million years ago, a line of apes began to rear their young differently than their Great Ape ancestors. From this new form of care came new ways of engaging and understanding each other. How such singular human capacities evolved, and how they have kept us alive for thousands of generations, is the mystery revealed in this bold and wide-ranging new vision of human emotional evolution.
Mothers and Others finds the key in the primatologically unique length of human childhood. If the young were to survive in a world of scarce food, they needed to be cared for, not only by their mothers but also by siblings, aunts, fathers, friends-and, with any luck, grandmothers.
Out of this complicated and contingent form of childrearing, Sarah Hrdy argues, came the human capacity for understanding others.
Mothers and others teach us who will care, and who will not.
Elon Musk's statement that 'The greatest weakness of Western Civilisation
is Empathy' which clearly resonates with Wealth-as-Power is indicative. Israeli Zionist indoctrination is the deliberate weaponisation of their own children.
Mothers and Others is an easy read.
From its opening vision of "apes on a plane"; to descriptions of baby care among marmosets, chimpanzees, wolves, and lions; to explanations about why men in hunter-gatherer societies hunt together, Mothers and Others is compellingly readable.
But it is also an intricately knit argument that ever since the Pleistocene, it has taken a village to raise children-and how that gave our ancient ancestors the first push on the path toward becoming emotionally modern human beings.
But it is also an intricately knit argument that ever since the Pleistocene, it has taken a village to raise children-and how that gave our ancient ancestors the first push on the path toward becoming emotionally modern human beings.
Father Time :
https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691238777/father-time
It has long seemed self-evident that women care for babies and men do other things. Hasn’t 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’ offspring.
But come the twenty-first century, increasing numbers of men are tending babies, sometimes right from birth. How can this be happening?
https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691238777/father-time
It has long seemed self-evident that women care for babies and men do other things. Hasn’t 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’ offspring.
But come the twenty-first century, increasing numbers of men are tending babies, sometimes right from birth. How can this be happening?
Real men are empathic nurturers.
Puzzled and dazzled by the tender expertise of new fathers around the world—several in her own family—celebrated 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 “normal.”
In Father Time, Hrdy draws on a wealth of research to argue that this ongoing transformation in men is not only cultural, but profoundly biological. Men in prolonged intimate contact with babies exhibit responses nearly identical to those in the bodies and brains of mothers.
They develop caring potential that wealth-as-power hierarchies and patriarchy pretended men do not possess.
In Father Time, Hrdy draws on a wealth of research to argue that this ongoing transformation in men is not only cultural, but profoundly biological. Men in prolonged intimate contact with babies exhibit responses nearly identical to those in the bodies and brains of mothers.
They develop caring potential that wealth-as-power hierarchies and patriarchy pretended men do not possess.
Wealth-as-Power detests empathy.
In her quest to explain how men came to nurture babies, Hrdy travels back through millions of years of human, primate, and mammalian evolution, then back further still to the earliest vertebrates—all while taking into account recent economic and social trends and technological innovations and incorporating new findings from neuroscience, genetics, endocrinology, and more.
The result is a masterful synthesis of evolutionary and historical perspectives that expands our understanding of what it means to be a man—and what the implications might be for society and our species.
The result is a masterful synthesis of evolutionary and historical perspectives that expands our understanding of what it means to be a man—and what the implications might be for society and our species.
The implications are existential.
And given the current enraged violent surge of Patriarchal Wealth-as-Power which Trump, Theil, Musk, Farage, Robinson and many others of the politically agitated billionaire class are presenting and their weaponisation of 'masculinity' as a misogynistic manospheric aggressive nationalistic political movement that is fascistic and divisive, as a campaign to evade accountability for the many harms that we understand from the evidence that Wealth Extraction has caused and is causing (Climate Disruption, Environment Degradation, Warfare, Poverty, Racism) as Wealth-as-Power seeks to over power Governments and countries, the implications are existential.
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