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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... fetal form of the anthropoid into adult stage . Such retention of anthropoid fetal traits would come about in a mosaic manner , that is to say , not all fetal ancestral traits would be retained in descendant forms but only one or a few ...
... fetal development , however , the flexure straightens out , resulting in the apparent projecting jaws characteristic of all primates with the exception of humans . In humans the fetal flexure is retained , and it is this neotenous ...
... fetal trait . Up to the sixth fetal month the head tends to be long . The " brachycephalic races , " Bolk suggests , are the offspring of longheaded ones . In the course of time , he argues , the transforming processes in some groups of ...
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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 |