Motherhood in Human and Nonhuman Primates Biosocial Determinants

About this book

This book is the outcome of an international symposium on fundamental and clinical aspects of primate motherhood. Specialists in the fields of anthropology, medicine, psychology, and zoology present a wealth of new theory and experimental evidence on the biosocial determinants of motherhood in human and nonhuman primates.

Contents

Introduction: determinants of motherhood in human and nonhuman primates - a biosocial model, C.R. Pryce. Part 1 Mother-infant behaviour as a life-history strategy: phylogenetic aspects of primate reproduction - the context of advanced maternal care, R.D. Martin; evolution and adaptive significance of hominid maternal behaviour, R. Foley; ecological and social correlates of maternal expenditure on infant growth in haplorhine primates, C. Ross and A. MacLarnon; influence of ecology and energetics on primate mothers and infants, P. Lee and J. Bowman; maternal styles in old world primates - their adaptive significance, M. Gomendio. Part 2 Causes and correlates of mother-infant behaviour: neurochemical changes accompanying the reproductive process - their significance for maternal care in primates and other mammals, B.E. Keverne; prepartum sex steroid hormones and infant-directed behaviour in primiparous marmoset mothers (callithrix jacchus), C.R. Pryce et al; experiential and hormonal correlates of care-giving in rhesus monkeys, S.D. Holman and R.W. Goy; environmental factors and hormones - their significance for maternal behaviour in captive gorillas, N.I. Bahr; sensory and hormonal control of maternal behaviour in rat and human mothers, A.S. Fleming et al; maternal personality, marital quality, social support and infant temperament - their significance for infant-mother attachment in human families, J. Belsky et al; risk factors for child abuse and neglect in human parents - a review of the literature and a single institution experience, D.S. Halperin; postnatal depression in primate mothers - a human problem?, J.L. Cox. Part 3 Consequences of maternal well-being and behaviour for infant development: maternal exposure to stress during pregnancy - its significance for infant behaviour in pigtail macaques (macaca nemestrina), J.M. Worlein and G.P. Sackett; significance of social attachment in primate infants - the infant-caregiver relationship and volition, G.W. Kraemer; failure to thrive in human infants - the significance of maternal well-being, D. Skuse et al.

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