Elizabeth Preston—The Creatures' Guide to Caring: How Animal Parents Teach Us That Humans Were Born to Care (opens in new tab)

“The tools for caring have been woven into our DNA,” Elizabeth Preston writes in _The Creatures' Guide to Caring: How Animal Parents Teach Us That Humans Were Born to Care._ From spiders to bats to whales, nature on land and sea is replete with examples. Humans and other animals’ shared biology and brain circuitry not only enable caring for our young, she says, but also living together in societies.