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Series:   Elements in Child Development

Child Development in Evolutionary Perspective

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 October 2020

David F. Bjorklund
David F. Bjorklund
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Florida Atlantic University

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Natural selection has operated as strongly or more so on the early stages of the lifespan as on adulthood. One evolved feature of human childhood is high levels of behavioral, cognitive, and neural plasticity, permitting children to adapt to a wide range of physical and social environments. Taking an evolutionary perspective on infancy and childhood provides a better understanding of contemporary human development, predicting and understanding adult behavior, and explaining how changes in the early development of our ancestors produced contemporary Homo sapiens.
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childhoodevolutionary developmental psychologydevelopmental systems theoryneotenyplasticity
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Series: Elements in Child Development
Online ISBN: 9781108866187
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication: 29 October 2020

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