Danna Staaf earned a PhD in biology from Stanford University with her studies of baby squid. She is the author of Monarchs of the Sea and The Lady and the Octopus, and she has written for Science, Atlas Obscura, and Nautilus. She lives in California with her human family, a cat, and a garden full of grubs, caterpillars, maggots, and innumerable other babies.
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Contents
Introduction: A World of the Babies, by the Babies, for the Babies
PART I: BUNDLES OF JOY 1. Eggs: Not Just a Bird Thing 2. Provisioning: How to Pack Your Baby’s Lunch 3. Brooding Eggs: Carry Them, Sit on Them, Swallow Them Whole 4. Pregnancy: Not Just a Mammal Thing
PART II: SALAD DAYS 5. Larvae: When Kids Look Like Aliens 6. Unaccompanied Minors: Where Do the Escargot? 7. Raising Them Right: Conservation and Sustainability 8. Evolution: What It Does and Doesn’t Recapitulate
PART III: COMING OF AGE 9. Metamorphosis, but Happier Than Kafka 10. Juveniles: Neither One Thing nor Another 11. Emergence: A Cicada Case Study
Introduction: A World of the Babies, by the Babies, for the Babies
PART I: BUNDLES OF JOY 1. Eggs: Not Just a Bird Thing 2. Provisioning: How to Pack Your Baby’s Lunch 3. Brooding Eggs: Carry Them, Sit on Them, Swallow Them Whole 4. Pregnancy: Not Just a Mammal Thing
PART II: SALAD DAYS 5. Larvae: When Kids Look Like Aliens 6. Unaccompanied Minors: Where Do the Escargot? 7. Raising Them Right: Conservation and Sustainability 8. Evolution: What It Does and Doesn’t Recapitulate
PART III: COMING OF AGE 9. Metamorphosis, but Happier Than Kafka 10. Juveniles: Neither One Thing nor Another 11. Emergence: A Cicada Case Study
Epilogue: Our Quiet Dependence on Babies
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