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Wildhood the epic journey from adolescence to adulthood in humans and other animals

"In their critically acclaimed bestseller, Zoobiquity, the authors revealed the essential connection between human and animal health. In Wildhood, they turn the same eye-opening, species-spanning lens to adolescent young adult life. Traveling around the world and drawing from their latest resea...

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Main Authors: Natterson-Horowitz, Barbara (Author), Bowers, Kathryn (Author)
Format: Books Print Book
Language: English
Published: New York : Scribner, 2019.
Edition: First Scribner hardcover edition.
Subjects:
Adolescence.
Adolescent psychology.
Mammals.
Parent and teenager.
Summary: "In their critically acclaimed bestseller, Zoobiquity, the authors revealed the essential connection between human and animal health. In Wildhood, they turn the same eye-opening, species-spanning lens to adolescent young adult life. Traveling around the world and drawing from their latest research, they find that the same four universal challenges are faced by every adolescent human and animal on earth: how to be safe, how to navigate hierarchy; how to court potential mates; and how to feed oneself. Safety. Status. Sex. Self-reliance. How human and animal adolescents and young adults confront the challenges of wildhood shapes their adult destinies"--Amazon.
Physical Description: xi, 354 pages : illustrations, maps, charts ; 24 cm.
Bibliography: Includes bibliographical resources and index.
ISBN: 1501164694
9781501164699
Author Notes: Barbara Natterson-Horowitz, MD, is a Visiting Professor at Harvard University in the Department of Human Evolutionary Biology. She is also Professor of Medicine/Cardiology at UCLA and President of the International Society of Evolution, Medicine, and Public Health. She is the coauthor of Zoobiquity and Wildhood.

Kathryn Bowers is an animal behaviorist and writer who has taught at UCLA and Harvard. A Future Tense Fellow at New America in Washington, DC, she was an editor at the Atlantic Monthly , CNN-International in London, and at Zócalo Public Square in Los Angeles. She is the coauthor of Zoobiquity and Wildhood.

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