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Chapter 5: How evolution designed our babies

The way our babies are today was influenced by the weather in Ethiopia about 4 million years ago!

We're just smart apes - Two legs, not four - Homo Sapiens emerges - Our premature babies - Long childhood - The Development of human society - Using sex to select a society - Sex for Meat - The hunter-gather community - Women, the backbone of society - Help from Alloparents - Babies' needs: then as now - Food and Feeding - Primate breastfeeding - The contraceptive effect - Human breast milk - Warmth - Touch - Protection and Care.

Chapter 6: How babies subjugate parents

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