| Edition |
First Belknap Press of Harvard University Press paperback edition. |
| Description |
1 online resource (xv, 943 pages) |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 757-916) and index. |
| Summary |
Takes a comprehensive Darwinian interpretation of human development. Looking at the entire range of human evolutionary history, Konner tells the story of how cross-cultural and universal characteristics of our growth from infancy to adolescence became rooted in genetically inherited characteristics of the human brain--From publisher description. |
| Contents |
Paradigms in the evolution of development -- Brains evolving -- Ape foundations, human revolution -- The evolution of human brain growth -- Paradigms in the study of psychosocial growth -- The growth of sociality -- The growth of attachment and the social fears -- The growth of language -- The growth of sex and gender differences -- The transition to middle childhood -- Reproductive behavior and the onset of parenting -- Paradigms in the study of socialization -- Early social experience -- The evolution of the mother-infant bond -- Cooperative breeding in the extended family -- Male parental care -- Relations among juveniles -- Play, social learning, and teaching -- The contexts of emerging reproductive behavior -- Stress and resilience in the changing family -- Hunter-gatherer childhood: the cultural baseline -- Paradigms in the study of enculturation -- The culture of infancy and early childhood -- The culture of subsistence -- The culture of middle childhood -- The culture of gender in childhood and adolescence -- Evolutionary culture theory -- Universals, adaptation, enculturation, and culture. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Children -- Anthropometry.
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Children -- Anthropometry. |
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Child development.
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Child development. |
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Child psychology.
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Child psychology. |
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Children.
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Children. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Subject |
Children. |
| Other Form: |
Print version: Konner, Melvin. Evolution of childhood. Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2011 0674062019 (OCoLC)726824853 |
| ISBN |
0674062019 |
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9780674062016 |
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9780674056572 (electronic book) |
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0674056574 (electronic book) |
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