How We've Evolved to Care (Sarah Blaffey Hrdy, PhD)

Pulling The Thread with Elise Loehnen

Elise Loehnen

Society & Culture, Religion & Spirituality, Self-improvement, Education

4.8 • 900 Ratings

🗓️ 17 October 2024

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

Legendary anthropologist Sarah Blaffer Hrdy gave us the term “allomother,” and by extension, “alloparent”—the pioneering idea that mutual care is the reason we’ve evolved to be the humans we are today. Hrdy, who is professor emerita at the University of California, Davis, has just written a new (and stunning) book, called Father Time: A Natural History of Men and Babies. Today, we talk about what she’s learned about human culture over the course of her long career, and the impact of her elegant hypothesis. See more about this episode and guest on my Substack. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:27.9	end of the script.
0:43.1	Hi, it's Elise Lunan, host of Pulling the Thread.
0:49.3	On this show, we pull apart the web in which we all live to understand who we are and why we're here.
0:52.2	Pulling the thread is about big questions.
0:55.9	Why we do what we do, how we can understand our own experiences within a larger spiritual and historical context,
0:59.1	the ways in which we might begin to understand ourselves and each other better,
1:03.0	and what's required to heal ourselves and our world.
1:06.4	I'll be joined in conversation by luminaries and wise elders,
1:10.0	those who have laid tracks in their work
1:11.6	and lives to help us bring meaning and understanding to a world that often feels chaotic and
1:16.7	overwhelming. My hope is that these conversations spark moments of resonance and plant tiny
1:22.1	seeds of awareness so that we might all collectively learn and grow.
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