Evolution, early experience and human development : from research to practice and policy

Contributors Editors SECTION I HUMAN NATURE: THE EFFECTS OF EVOLUTION AND ENVIRONMENT Chapter 1. The Value of the Environment of Evolutionary Adaptedness for gauging children's well-being Darcia Narvaez, Jaak Panksepp, Allan Schore, Tracy Gleason Chapter 2. Bowlby's "Environment of evolutionary adaptedness": Recent studies on the interpersonal neurobiology of attachment and emotional development Allan Schore Commentary: Early experience, neurobiology, plasticity, vulnerability and resilience by Michael Lamb Chapter 3. How primary-process emotional systems guide child development: Ancestral regulators of human happiness, thriving and suffering Jaak Panksepp Commentary: The integrative meaning of emotion by Daniel Siegel Chapter 4. Epigenetics and the environmental regulation of the genome and its function Michael Meaney Commentary: The messages of epigenetic research by Jerome Kagan Chapter 5. Neurobiology and the evolution of mammalian social behavior C. Sue Carter and Stephen W. Porges Chapter 6. Dopamine: Another 'magic bullet' for caregiver responsiveness? Alison Fleming, Viara Mileva-Seitz, Veronica M. Afonso Chapter 7. The Neurobiological basis of empathy and its development in the environment of evolutionary adaptedness Eric E. Nelson Commentary: The Death of Empathy? by Bruce Perry SECTION COMMENTARY: Born For Art, and the Joyful Companionship of Fiction by Colwyn Trevarthen SECTION II: EARLY EXPERIENCE: THE EFFECTS OF CULTURAL PRACTICE Chapter 8. Birth and the first postnatal hour Wenda R. Trevathan Chapter 9. Night-time nurturing: an evolutionary perspective on breastfeeding and sleep Helen Ball and Charlotte Russell Chapter 10. Touch and pain perception in infants Tiffany Field and Maria Hernandez-Reif Chapter 11. Infant feeding practices: rates, risks of not breastfeeding and factors influencing breastfeeding Zaharah Sulaiman, Lisa H. Amir and Pranee Liamputtong Commentary: Short term and long term effects of oxytocin released by suckling and of skin to skin contact in mothers and infants by Kerstin Uvnas Moberg Chapter 12. Developmental optimization Darcia Narvaez & Tracy Gleason Commentary: Darwin et al. on developmental optimization by David Loye SECTION COMMENTARY: Adaptations and Adaptations by Ross Thompson SECTION III: THEMES IN HUMAN EVOLUTION Chapter 13. Play, plasticity, and ontogeny in childhood Anthony D. Pellegrini and Adam F. A. Pellegrini Chapter 14. The Value of a play-filled childhood in development of the hunter-gatherer individual Peter Gray Chapter 15. Rough-and-tumble play and the cooperation-competition dilemma: Evolutionary and developmental perspectives on the development of social competence Joseph L. Flanders, Khalisa N. Herman, and Daniel Paquette Commentary: Play in Hunter-Gatherers by Barry Hewlett and Adam H. Boyette SECTION IV: PERSPECTIVES AND COUNTERPERSPECTIVES Chapter 16. Perspective 1: Why would natural selection craft an organism whose future functioning is influenced by its earlier experiences? Jay Belsky Chapter 17. Perspective 2: Play, Plasticity, and the Perils of Conflict: 'Problematizing' Sociobiology Melvin Konner Chapter 18. Perspective 3: The Emergent Organism: A New Paradigm William Mason Chapter 19. Perspective 4: Can science progress to a revitalized past? Gay Bradshaw Chapter 20. Perspective 5: Earliest experiences and attachment processes Howard Steele Chapter 21. Perspective 6: Nurturant vs. non-nurturant environments and the failure of the Environment of Evolutionary Adaptedness James W. Prescott Chapter 22. Perspective 7: It's dangerous to be an infant: on-going relevance of John Bowlby's Environment of Evolutionary Adaptedness (the EEA) in promoting healthier births, safer maternal-infant sleep, and breastfeeding in a contemporary western industrial context James J. McKenna and Lee T. Gettler SECTION V: CONCLUSION Chapter 23. The Future of human nature: Implications for research, policy, and ethics Darcia Narvaez, Jaak Panksepp, Allan Schore and Tracy Gleason Subject Index Author Index