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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... body hair in humans almost certainly followed upon the adoption of the erect posture and a new way of life resulting in physiological changes that favored the perpetuation of GENOTYPES ( genetic constitutions ) for reduced hair . It ...
... body surface of two quarts per hour ! This would amount to the removal of 1200 calories per hour from the body and a reduction of body heat by 68 ° Fahrenheit . Body THERMORE- GULATION could hardly be more efficiently achieved . The ...
... body weighs five times as much as the brain . In the adult the body weighs fifty times as much as the brain . It is evident , then , that while the rate of growth of the brain in humans is rapid in the final three months of fetal life ...
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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 |