From the New York Times bestselling author of The Lion in the Living Room comes a fascinating and provocative exploration of the biology of motherhood that “is witty, reassuring, and takes motherhood out of the footnotes and places it front and center—where it belongs” (Louann Brizendine, MD, New York Times bestselling author).
Everyone knows how babies are made, but scientists are only just beginning to understand the making of a mother. Mom Genes reveals the hard science behind our tenderest maternal impulses, tackling questions such as why mothers are destined to mimic their own moms (or not), how maternal aggression makes females the world’s most formidable creatures, and how a crisis like the COVID-19 pandemic can make or break a mom.
Weaving the latest research with Abigail Tucker’s personal experiences, Mom Genes “is an eye-opening tour through the biology and psychology of a role that is at once utterly ordinary and wondrously strange” (Annie Murphy Paul, author of Origins).
ISBN-13: 9781501192876
Media Type: Paperback
Publisher: Gallery Books
Publication Date: 04-05-2022
Pages: 336
Product Dimensions: 5.50(w) x 8.30(h) x 1.00(d)
Abigail Tucker’s work has been featured in the Best American Science and Nature Writing series. She is the New York Times bestselling author of The Lion in the Living Room: How House Cats Tamed Us and Took Over the World, named a Best Science Book of 2016 by Library Journal and Forbes, now translated into thirteen languages. A correspondent for Smithsonian magazine, she lives in New Haven, Connecticut, with her husband and four (equally amazing) children.
Table of Contents
Introduction 1
1 Momentum 17
2 Dad Genes 43
3 The Whole Shebang 69
4 Mommy Weirdest 87
5 Mother of Invention 103
6 In Search of the Mom Gene 129
7 Are You Kidding Me? 153
8 Thermometers 181
9 No Mom Is an Island 209
10 Motherland 241
Acknowledgments 267
Notes 269
Index 309
