Robin Baker, Elizabeth Oram
Description
Explodes the nuclear family once & for all, revealing the unacknowledged conflicts at the heart of even the happiest households. Fatherhood, motherhoo
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d, nurturing & care -- beneath these deep human instincts lies another that is still deeper -- the will to ensure our own genetic survival at the expense of others. From a series of instantly recognizable everyday fictional situations, Baby Wars finds a comparable competition at work within the family. It combines the most up-to-date understanding of the mechanism of reproduction with an unrivaled eye for the complexities -- & apparent perversities -- of human behavior.
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