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The Effect of Changing Medical Advice on Breastfeeding

Complete video available for purchase at fora.tv Dr. Robert Martin, Curator of Biological Anthropology at the Field Museum in Chicago, surveys how changing medical advice on breastfeeding has affected motherhood over time. —- All primates have drawn-out life histories with long pregnancies and extended suckling. Time devoted to individual offspring more than compensates for limited [...]

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