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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... mature form , the human infant , deprived of those stimulations necessary for emotional growth and development , will fail to undergo that transformation into the mature healthy creature she might have been . This is a deprivation we ...
... mature while otherwise remaining permanently in the larval state . It is this phe- nomenon that Kollman dubbed neoteny . Here let me indulge in a little etymological criticism . Kollmann coined the term neoteny by joining the Greek ...
... mature , and between the mature and the old , were primordially acquired by graduated steps . " This is succinctly put . Referring to this formulation of his theory Cope later wrote ( in 1887 ) that " It is quite misunderstood by Darwin ...
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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 |