The wonderful 1995 book edited by Patricia 
Stuart-Macadam and Katherine A. Dettwyler, 
Breastfeeding: Biocultural Perspectives. (New 
York: Aldine De Gruyter) contains chapters on 
weaning and baby-led breastfeeding. eg,

It is reasonable to assume that five to seven 
million years of evolution as hunting and 
gathering hominids on the East African savanna 
have resulted in an organism that relies on 
nursing to provide the context for physical, 
cognitive, and emotional development. Natural 
selection has favored those infants with a 
strong, genetically-coded blueprint that leads 
them to expect nursing to continue for a number 
of years after birth, and that results in the 
urge to suckle remaining strong for this entire 
period. (p. 66)

Tina

At 9:33 PM +0200 6/25/07, Marit Olanders wrote:
>In the human Environment of Evolutionary 
>Adaptedness ... do/did the children breastfeed 
>until they ceased by themselves? Or do/did the 
>mothers , wean them? Where can I find more 
>information about this?
>
>Marit Olanders
>breastfeedeing consellor in the Swedish assosciation Amningshjälpen
>editor of Amningshjälpen's magazine Amningsnytt



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Tina Kimmel, PhD, MSW, MPH
Oakland, CA, US

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