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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... individual or strain at a given time and place . Genetic structures which permit adaptive plasticity of traits ... individual as well as the species as a whole . Success of the individual in most societies has depended and continues to ...
... individual , large numbers of persons are produced who , in the midst of the lonely crowd live in an isolated glow of narcissism which eventually leaves them out in the cold . The tragic examples of these , in the highest offices of the ...
... individual represents a reaction or response configuration which makes him a part of a whole , of which he always remains an integral and important constituent . Only disordered persons regard them- selves as the whole and the remainder ...
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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 |