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The Maltreatment of Children pp 95–119Cite as

The Epidemiology of Child Abuse

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The ‘Ascent of Man’ required group co-operation in which the young were protected. Life expectancy was so short, and sub-human and pre-human young so vulnerable that adult individuals other than the parents must have protected them. Love of the young and protection of the helpless, argues Bronowski1 must have been essential ingredients of human evolution. Social amity and group protection of the young are older primate characteristics in pre-human evolution than the ferocity of our immediate ancestors, the man-like (group hunting) apes2.

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Oliver, J.E. (1978). The Epidemiology of Child Abuse. In: Smith, S.M. (eds) The Maltreatment of Children. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-6162-6_5

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