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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... result of this is the high frequency of beauty among Mon- goloid males and females , a beauty of great delicacy ( see Table 1 ) . The differential action of neoteny has produced some peculiar ef- fects . For example , among the highly ...
... result of the neotenous reduction of the face and upper jaw in humans ; hence , it is to be regarded as a neotenous feature peculiar to humans . The fusion of the premaxilla with the maxilla acts as a brake upon the forward growth of ...
... result of retardation . The process of retardation , Bolk felt , was principally the consequence of hormonal influences . This he thought one could perceive in comparing the remains of extinct hominids back to the earliest ancestral ...
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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 |
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