Child Development in Evolutionary Perspective e-bog
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Natural selection has operated as strongly or more so on the early stages of the lifespan as on adulthood. One evolved feature of human childhood is high levels of behavioral, cognitive, and neural plasticity, permitting children to adapt to a wide range of physical and social environments. Taking an evolutionary perspective on infancy and childhood provides a better understanding of contempora...
E-bog
165,78 DKK
Forlag
Cambridge University Press
Udgivet
29 oktober 2020
Genrer
Child, developmental and lifespan psychology
Sprog
English
Format
epub
Beskyttelse
LCP
ISBN
9781108853866
Natural selection has operated as strongly or more so on the early stages of the lifespan as on adulthood. One evolved feature of human childhood is high levels of behavioral, cognitive, and neural plasticity, permitting children to adapt to a wide range of physical and social environments. Taking an evolutionary perspective on infancy and childhood provides a better understanding of contemporary human development, predicting and understanding adult behavior, and explaining how changes in the early development of our ancestors produced contemporary Homo sapiens.