Meredith Francesca Small (born 20 November 1950) is a Professor Emerita 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 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.
Books in order of publication:
1984 – Female Primates: Studies by Women Primatologists (edited by Meredith F. Small). A. R. Liss: New York
1993 – Female Choices; Sexual Behavior of Female Primates. Cornell University Press: Ithaca, NY.
1995 – What’s Love Got to do with it? The Evolution of Human Mating. Anchor Books (Doubleday)
1998 – Our Babies, Ourselves; How Biology and Culture Shape the Way we Parent. Anchor Books (Doubleday).
2001 – Kids: How Biology and Culture Shape the Way We Raise Our Children. Doubleday.
2006 – The Culture of Our Discontent; Beyond the Medical Model of Mental Illness. Joseph Henry Press: Washington, DC.
2014 – Fall Creek. Lavori a Mano Press: Ithaca, NY
2023 – Here Begins the Dark Sea: Venice, a Medieval Monk, and the Creation of the Most Accurate Map of the World
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