Reader Views Book Reviews: “Conspiracy by Means of Natural Selection” by Sherman P. Bastarache – Reader Views Book Reviews
So many books of this type focus on the mental processes of Man the Hunter! But of course, a more logical place to look for the ways in which the brain develops is in the interactions of newborns with their mothers, or “goddesses,” as Bastarache has it. After all, to an infant, its mother is not only a literal fountain but also a fountain of language acquisition and learning. He lays this all out in far more detail than I’m providing here. Suffice it to say that there is a natural progression in the cognitive abilities of most animals, then other primates, then now-extinct versions of Homo, and finally by us.