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

2019

Format:	Book
Author:	Natterson-Horowitz, Barbara,. author
Title:	Wildhood : the epic journey from adolescence to adulthood in humans and other animals / Barbara Natterson-Horowitz and Kathryn Bowers.
Publisher, Date:	New York : Scribner, [2019] ©2019
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.
Subjects:	Psychology, Comparative Adolescent psychology Adolescence Mammals Parent and teenager FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS / Parenting / General. PSYCHOLOGY / Developmental / Adolescent. SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Zoology / Mammals.
Other Author:	Bowers, Kathryn, author
Notes:	Includes bibliographical resources and index.
ISBN:	9781501164699 (hardcover)
Other Number:	1085158209
System Availability:	5
Current Holds:	0
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Control Number:	1751727
Call Number:	156.5
Course Reserves:	0
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Publishers Weekly Most Anticipated Books of Fall 2019
A New York Times Editor's Pick
People Best Books Fall 2019
Chicago Tribune 28 Books You Need to Read Now

"It blew my mind to discover that teenage animals and teenage humans are so similar. Both are naive risk-takers. I loved this book!" --Temple Grandin, author of Animals Make Us Human and Animals in Translation

A revelatory investigation of human and animal adolescence and young adulthood from the New York Times bestselling authors of Zoobiquity.

With Wildhood , Harvard evolutionary biologist Barbara Natterson-Horowitz and award-winning science writer Kathryn Bowers have created an entirely new way of thinking about the crucial, vulnerable, and exhilarating phase of life between childhood and adulthood across the animal kingdom.

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.

Natterson-Horowitz and Bowers illuminate these core challenges through the lives of four animals in the wild: Ursula, a young king penguin; Shrink, a charismatic hyena; Salt, a matriarchal humpback whale; and Slavc, a roaming European wolf. Through their riveting stories--and those of countless others, from adventurous eagles and rambunctious high schooler to inexperienced orcas and naive young soldiers--readers get a vivid and game-changing portrait of adolescent young adults as a horizontal tribe, sharing behaviors and challenges, setbacks and triumphs.

Upending our understanding of everything from risk-taking and anxiety to the origins of privilege and the nature of sexual coercion and consent, Wildhood is a profound and necessary guide to the perilous, thrilling, and universal journey to adulthood on planet earth.

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The developmental years of adolescence seem unique to the human experience, rife with the awkwardness of puberty, conflicts with parents, drama between friends, and the push to find an identity away from home. Natterson-Horowitz and Bowers utilize years of research to illustrate how, in fact, adolescence is an experience shared across many species. This time between childhood and adulthood, which the authors call wildhood, has four core competencies: safety, status, sex, and self-reliance. Readers follow four animals' adolescence, each highlighting one of the challenges of wildhood. Ursula, a king penguin, must stay safe in the predator-filled waters of the Atlantic. Shrink, a spotted hyena, navigates how to live with others and climb the status hierarchy of his clan. Salt, a humpback whale, learns how to communicate sexually in order to find a mate each year. And, finally, Slavc, a wolf, ventures away from home to survive on his own. Thanks to the authors' research, teenagers can rest assured that they have a temporary membership in a planet-wide tribe of adolescents. An incredibly fascinating read, Wildhood illuminates what humans can learn from the animal world and how all species are more connected to one another than they may appear.--Melissa Norstedt Copyright 2010 Booklist

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Table of Contents

	Prologue	p. 1
Part I	Safety
1	Dangerous Days	p. 21
2	The Nature of Fear	p. 29
3	Knowing Your Predators	p. 39
4	The Self-Confident Fish	p. 67
5	School for Survival	p. 79
Part II	Status
6	The Age of Assessment	p. 93
7	The Rules of Groups	p. 105
8	Privileged Creatures	p. 119
9	The Pain of Social Descent	p. 129
10	The Power of an Ally	p. 147
Part III	Sex
11	Animal Romance	p. 161
12	Desire & Restraint	p. 171
13	The First Time	p. 187
14	Coercion & Consent	p. 195
Part IV	Self-Reliance
15	Learning to Launch	p. 211
16	Making a Living	p. 231
17	The Great Alone	p. 247
18	Finding a Self	p. 259
	Epilogue	p. 263
	Acknowledgments	p. 269
	Glossary of Terms	p. 271
	Notes	p. 279
	Note About the Illustrations	p. 331
	Index	p. 333

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