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<jats:p>This article recalls how <jats:styled-content style="fixed-case">D</jats:styled-content>r. <jats:styled-content style="fixed-case">B</jats:styled-content>erry <jats:styled-content style="fixed-case">B</jats:styled-content>razelton, in the past 50 years, has transformed pediatrics and childcare and supported parents' understanding of their young children. <jats:styled-content style="fixed-case">B</jats:styled-content>erry's work as a pediatrician and basic research in the psychobiology of childbirth and infant communication and care have proved to be richly complementary. <jats:styled-content style="fixed-case">B</jats:styled-content>razelton and the author were fortunate to meet in the context of the wide exploration of human nature and adaptations of human intelligence for cooperative life encouraged by <jats:styled-content style="fixed-case">J</jats:styled-content>erome <jats:styled-content style="fixed-case">B</jats:styled-content>runer's vision of how cultural awareness of meaning may be generated in affectionate relations from infancy. This opened a new awareness of the adaptations of the human mind for sharing the creation of a meaningful world by exploring playful imagination with companions.</jats:p>