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Mother Nature
A History of Mothers, Infants, and Natural Selection
By SARAH BLAFFER HRDY
Pantheon

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Being a mother has never been simple. Today, modern medicine, safe water, stored food, pasteurized milk, cradles, and houses with walls make it easier than ever before to keep a baby alive. Rubber-nippled baby bottles and daycare centers especially designed and licensed for the care of the very young provide working mothers, even those with weeks-old babies, with alternatives to the only two viable options previously available: keep your baby close or find a wet nurse. The availability of breast pumps and freezers means that more women can both breast-feed and spend hours separated from their babies.

Above all, there is birth control, which permits a woman to consciously override her ovaries and choose when, or if, she will bear children. Ultrasound and amniocentesis enable women to spend decades in a career and still look forward to bearing a healthy infant. Far from simplifying motherhood, these novel choices have exposed tensions just beneath th

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Mother Nature

Personification of Earth's environment

For other uses, see Mother Nature (disambiguation).

Not to be confused with Mother goddess or earth goddess.

Mother Nature (sometimes known as Mother Earth or the Earth Mother) is a personification of nature that focuses on the life-giving and nurturing aspects of nature by embodying it, in the form of a mother or mother goddess.

European concept traditions

Greek concept

The Mycenaean Greek: Ma-ka (transliterated as ma-ga), "Mother Gaia", written in Linear B syllabic script (13th or 12th century BC), is the earliest known instance of the concept of earth as a mother.^[1]

Demeter would take the place of her grandmother, Gaia, and her mother, Rhea, as goddess of the earth in a time when humans and gods thought the activities of the heavens more sacred than those of earth.^[2]
— Leeming, Creation Myths of the World: An Encyclopedia

Greek myth of the seasons

In Greek mythology, Persephone, daughter of Demeter (goddess of the harvest), was abducted by Hades

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Mother Nature: A History of Mothers, Infants, and Natural Selection

Publication Type: Book

Authors: Hrdy, Sarah Blaffer

Year of Publication: 1999

Edition: 1st Ed.

Number of Pages: 723

Publisher: Pantheon Books

City: New York

Publication Language: eng

ISBN Number: 0679442650

Keywords: Maternal Behavior, Mother and child, Motherhood, Natural selection, Parental behavior in animals, Selection (Genetics)., Working mothers

Abstract:

Maternal instinct—the all-consuming, utterly selfless love that mothers lavish on their children—has long been assumed to be an innate, indeed defining element of a woman's nature. But is it? In this provocative, groundbreaking book, renowned anthropologist (and mother) Sarah Blaffer Hrdy shares a radical new vision of motherhood and its crucial role in human evolution.Hrdy strips away stereotypes and gender-biased myths to demonstrate that traditional views of maternal behavior are essentially wishful thinking codified as objective observation. As Hrdy argues, far from being "selfless," successful primate mothers have alwa