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FEMALE OF THE SPECIES

MATERNAL INSTINCT IS AN insidious myth. It suggests that every female has the ability to intuit her offspring’s every need. As such, their experiences are all the same and not worth studying.

A pioneering long-term baboon study in Kenya by the visionary primatologist Jeanne Altmann, started in the

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