For the last two decades, Harvard evolutionary biologist Dr. Barbara Natterson-Horowitz, MD and science writer Kathryn Bowers have studied the natural world for insights into human health – cancer, heart disease, depression, drug addiction, etc. As they watched their teenagers entering the world of social media academic pressure, dating, driving, and more they started to question what they could learn from the animal world to help them guide their children through the rough teen years.
The result was a 5-year scientific study of adolescence across species in WILDHOOD: The Epic Journey from Adolescence to Adulthood in Humans and Other Animals