Wenda R. Trevathan

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Wenda R. Trevathan is a Regents Professor emerita of anthropology at New Mexico State University. She is also the author of Human Birth: An Evolutionary Perspective and Ancient Bodies, Modern Lives: How Evolution Has Shaped Women's Health.

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Helpless Infants and Human Evolution

Edited by Wenda R. Trevathan

The contributors to this volume propose that the helpless infant has played a role in human evolution equal in importance to those of man the hunter and woman the gatherer.

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