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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Ashley Montagu. the jaws ( PREMOLARS and MOLARS ) retained their large size and only underwent reduction at a later ... jaws , cranial crests , massive eyebrow ridges , and facial structures . Simply by stretching out the fetal stages ...
... jaws , a condition called prognathism . In the early fetal development of primates con- ditions are quite different . In them the cranial flexure is found to be such that the anterior portion of the base of the skull is inclined ...
... jaw growth the jaws , as it were , withdrew , leaving the nasal aperture and the nose itself narrower and more prominent . Hence , we may conclude that the nose constitutes yet another example of the workings of neoteny . The Sense of ...
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Neoteny and Human Biological Evolution | 12 |
The Evolution of Human Behavior | 46 |
Chapter 4 | 62 |
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