The finding adds to the growing evidence that friendship is an adaptation with deep evolutionary roots. (sciencemag.org)
Eventually, these defenders conceded that evolutionary roots of certain cherished human cognitive abilities could indeed be found in nonhuman animals, but only in large - brained mammals, particularly in apes. (discovermagazine.com)
In Our Babies, Ourselves, Small writes not just as an anthropologist, wanting to observe and record human behavior and how it relates to our biological and evolutionary roots as mammals, but also from an ethnopediatrics perspective, which seeks to advise us as parents how to integrate babies» innate needs with our culture in an infant - appropriate way. (naturalparentsnetwork.com)