Dr Paul Turke is a pediatrician, evolutionary anthropologist, and an author.

How did humans raise kids 1,000 years ago? Today’s parenting is all routines, data-driven insights and what the latest research says. But what can ancient wisdom teach us about parenting, and where might it call our modern methods into question?

Expect to learn how child rearing might look different if parents were educated in evolutionary theory, what the evolutionary role of grandparents are, and why it matters for raising kids today, Where babies would have slept ancestrally, why toddlers wake up at night, throw food, or act out and why might those be smart behaviors, what parents should know about “normal” child development from an evolutionary view, what we can we learn from cultures that co-sleep, breastfeed longer, and parent together and much more…

Mentioned Books

Bringing Up Baby: An Evolutionary View of Pediatrics
“Why won't you let me sit down? I They want they want they want you up, you know, and uh, yes”
Homicide
Homicide by Martin Daly and Margo Wilson