Infanticide: Comparative and Evolutionary Perspectives

by Glenn Hausfater (Editor), Sarah Blaffer Hrdy (Editor)

Hausfater and Sarah Blaffer Hrdy, through their selection of materials for this book, evaluate the frequency, causes, and function of infanticide. Historical, ethnographic, and recent data on infanticide are surveyed. Infanticide summarizes current research on the evolutionary origins and proximate causation of infanticide in animals and man. As such it will be indispensable reading for anthropologists and behavioral biologists as well as ecologists, psychologists, demographers, and epidemiologists.

Genres: Evolution, Animals

598 pages, Hardcover

First published July 1, 1984