Meredith Small
Meredith F. Small (20 November 1950 - ) is a Professor of Anthropology at Cornell University and popular science author. She was born in St. Louis, Missouri. She has been widely published in academic journals, and her research is well presented in her most popular book: "Our Babies, Ourselves". She spent many years studying both people and primate behaviour. Her current area of interest is in the intersection of biology and culture, and how that has influenced parenting.
Famous quotes containing the words meredith and/or small:
“What are we first? First, animals; and next
Intelligences at a leap; on whom
Pale lies the distant shadow of the tomb,”
—George Meredith (1828–1909)
“the small tuft of fronds or katydid legs above each eye, still
numbering the units in each group;
the shadbones regularly set about the mouth, to droop or rise”
—Marianne Moore (1887–1972)