How Did We Manage To Survive: Lessons From Human Evolution
summary
Claim that unconditional maternal love is a driving force behind human survival, linked to obstetric difficulty from pelvic change and big brains and to a large fertility rise between 10,000 and 5,000 BC called the Neolithic demographic transition. An ERC‑funded ongoing birth project at the Bioscience Institute, University of Novi Sad combines archaeology and residue analysis and reports bone feeding spoons with milk residues across Neolithic Europe as direct evidence of communal infant care.
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chapters (6)
- 0:00Love as an evolutionary force
- 1:47Birthing and survival
- 4:26Investigating fertility
- 6:44Genitals and gender roles
- 10:00Unconditional love
- 12:21Prehistoric evidence
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