A series · Family & Care
Carrying
the World.
The origins of fatherly care.
A father who actually does something is close to a rounding error among mammals. The exceptions are worth meeting properly, because everything else in this series rests on them.
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Article 1 · Part I · The Source · 14 min read
The Rarest Animal
A father who actually does something is close to a rounding error among mammals. The exceptions are worth meeting properly, because everything else in this series rests on them.
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Sky Father
The oldest divine name we can reconstruct is a compound of two words: bright, and dad. And the word for father may have been invented by babies.
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30 parts are planned. New titles will appear here as the series grows, with links when each article is published.
Reading the sources
Care, contact
and open questions.
The opening article includes numbered references to research and primary texts, distinguishes direct care from other forms of investment, and identifies questions researchers still debate.
Find the references at the end of the article, alongside seven contact habits to try during the week.