In the decade that followed since the original clinical report on the father's role was
published by the American Academy of Pediatrics in May 2004, 1 there has been a surge of …

Although interest in the neurobiology of parent–infant bonding is a century old,
neuroimaging of the human parental brain is recent. After summarizing current comparative …

Parents know the transformative nature of having and caring for a child. Among many
mammals, giving birth leads from an aversion to infant stimuli to irresistible attraction. Here …

Oxytocin (OT), a nonapeptide signaling molecule originating from an ancestral peptide,
appears in different variants across all vertebrate and several invertebrate species …

Autism is a pervasive developmental disorder characterized by profound social and verbal
communication deficits, stereotypical motor behaviors, restricted interests, and cognitive …

Postnatal development includes dramatic changes in gonadal hormones and the many
social behaviors they help regulate, both in rodents and humans. Parental care-seeking is …

This chapter provides an overview of life history theory (LHT). LHT conceptualizes specific
allocation tradeoffs in terms of three broad, fundamental trade‐offs: the present‐future …

Sensitive periods (SP) in behavioral development appeared in the biological sciences
during the first decade of the 20th century, and research in animal models beginning in the …

The inner processes that make compassion possible arose from the evolutionary advantage
of caring for others, especially offspring, kin and in‐group allies. This paper explores issues …

Researchers in the social and behavioral sciences are increasingly using evolutionary
insights to test novel hypotheses about human psychology. Because evolutionary …