Dario Maestripieri: University of Chicago Department of Comparative Human Development

In human and nonhuman primates, caregiver attachment is a motivational/ behavioral system that promotes the maintenance of proximity between a caregiver and an infant and facilitates the expression of caregiving behavior. Comparative data on female interest in infant and infant-directed behavior in nonhuman primates and humans will be used to illustrate the proximate regulation, development, adaptive function, and evolution of the caregiver attachment system.