ANT 227 - Mothers and Infants

4 credits (Fall or Spring)

In this course, we will examine mothers, mother-infant relationships and infant development across the primate order and cross-culturally from an evolutionary perspective and with focus on biology. Topics will include but are not limited to: parental investment theory, parent-offspring conflict theory, attachment theory, conception, pregnancy, gestation, lactation, human and nonhuman primate infant development and trajectories, infant sex differences, and infanticide.

Prerequisite: ANT 104.
Note: Plus-2 option available. Not offered every year.
Instructor: Bentley-Condit