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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... female care - giving behavior . " The female , as in virtually all other traits , is more pedomorphic than the male , and in some groups , such as MONGOLOIDS , the sexual difference is even more marked than it is among NEGROIDS and CAU ...
... female . Reproductive ability is more prolonged in males , but the capacity for sex and orgasm con- tinues in the female into old age much more often than in the male . Menarche ( the first menstruation ) may occur earlier in the female ...
... female , and infant the enabling factor is neoteny , that is , the physical specialization of the male ( 40 percent muscle compared with 23 percent in the female , larger bones , lung capacity , more red blood cells per cubic centimeter ) ...
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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 |