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Episode: Growing Up Human: The Evolution of Childhood – Brenna Hassett
Description: Brenna Hassett explores how evolutionary history has shaped a weird and wonderful phenomenon that everyone on the planet experiences – childhood.
Paleoanthropological science has revealed that we have one particular thing that sets us apart as a species: our uniquely long childhoods. This book looks at how we have diverged from our primate roots to stay ‘forever young’ – or at least what seems like forever – and how the evolution of childhood is a critical part of the human story.
Brenna Hassett PhD is a biological anthropologist and archaeologist whose career, first at the Natural History Museum London and...