Growing YoungBloomsbury Academic, 1989 - 292 páginas In this new, revised edition of his landmark book, Montagu compels us to reevaluate the way we think about growth and development, in all its phases, throughout life. Humans are designed to grow and develop their childlike qualities, and not to become the ossified adults prescribed by society. Montagu demonstrates how our culture, schools, and families are in conspiracy against such childlike traits as the need to love, to learn, to wonder, to know, to explore, to think, to experiment, to be imaginative, creative and curious, to sing, dance, or play. He also reveals the many links between physical and mental aging and tells how to prevent psychosclerosis, the hardening of the mind, so that we can die young--as late as possible. The best statement ever written on the most important, neglected theme of human life and evolution. Stephen Jay Gould, Harvard University |
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... birth canal . At birth not only are the baby's other organs com- paratively lagging in growth , but the structure of the infant's brain is itself in a comparatively undeveloped state . The great neuroanatomists Cécile and Oskar Vogt and ...
... birth . Birth is no more the beginning of life than it is the end of gestation ; it is merely the bridge between gestation within the womb and gestation outside the womb . It may be arbitrarily useful to divide up these periods ...
... birth process itself . This has been called the " trauma of birth . " Whether or not it is true that the fetus experiences its life in the womb as a state of bliss , as psychoanalysts and some others have claimed , such evidence as we ...
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Neoteny and Human Biological Evolution | 12 |
The Evolution of Human Behavior | 46 |
Chapter 4 | 62 |
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Continuity of Neural Functions from Prenatal to Postnatal Life Heinz F. Prechtl Vista previa limitada - 1984 |
Continuity of Neural Functions from Prenatal to Postnatal Life Heinz F. Prechtl Vista previa limitada - 1984 |