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《Building Babies:近端和终极视角下的灵长类动物发育》 就像一个巨大儿胎儿*,在骨盆腔内几经周折才最终诞生。但是,它确实问世了!本书由我、凯蒂·海因德朱莉恩·卢瑟福 编辑,我们希望本书既能激励未来的研究工作,因为我们努力招募从事前沿研究的作者,又能为本科生、研究生和教师提供优秀的参考资料。我们也希望这本书对那些对婴儿或女性事务感兴趣的非学术界人士也很有趣。

如果您的大学订阅了施普林格,那么 《Building Babies》的所有章节都可以免费下载 pdf 格式,并且有低成本的平装本选项。如果您的大学没有订阅,您很可能可以使用免费的馆际互借选项,这将使您获得一些 pdf 文件。纸质版也应该很快在商店上架。这本书厚达 531 页,所以纸质版会很贵。如果您无法承担高昂的费用,我建议您获取 pdf 格式的副本。

*“巨大儿” 只是指非常大的婴儿。但我今天想用这个大词。

I am Dr. Kate Clancy, Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. On top of being an academic, I am a mother, a wife, an athlete, a labor activist, a sister, and a daughter. My beautiful blog banner was made by Jacqueline Dillard. Context and variation together help us understand humans (and any other species) as complicated. But they also help to show us that biology is not immutable, that it does not define us from the moment of our birth. Rather, our environment pushes and pulls our genes into different reaction norms that help us predict behavior and physiology. But, as humans make our environments, we have the ability to change the very things that change us. We often have more control over our biology than we may think.

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