"This book is excellent. Having started reading it, I could not put it down but read it all at one go in a day. Extremely readable, it deals elegantly and succinctly with some of the more complex issues and topics in behavioral ecology of parental investment strategies. It will appeal not only to general readers with an interest in animal and human behavior but to students and academics as well."--Robin Dunbar, University of Liverpool, author of "Grooming, Gossip, and the Evolution of Language"
"An outstanding contribution to the literature on the evolution of human social behavior, this book breaks new ground and, most importantly, frames the family exactly where it should be--in an evolved pattern of behavior in which parents seek to enhance their reproductive success, sometimes at the expense of some of their children."--Craig B. Stanford, University of Southern California, author of "Upright: The Evolutionary Key to Becoming Human"
