Between culture and biology : perspectives on ontogenetic development Between Culture and Biology brings together biological psychological and cultural perspectives on development. It argues that the biological bases of behaviour and cultural context should be approached in an integrated fashion to properly understand ontogenetic development and that both the cultural and biological demain provide constraints and opportunities for development Setting the scene Culture biology and development across history Gustav Jahoda Comparative developmental perspectives on culture: the great apes Anne E. Russon The mutual definition of culture and biology in development Patricia M. Greenfield Perspectives on Development Informed by Culture Indian parents ethnotheories as reflections of the Hindu scheme of child and human development T.S. Saraswathi and Hema Ganapathy Indigenous conceptions of childhood development and social realities in southern Africa Roderick Fulata Zimba The myth of lurking chaos Ernst E. Boesch Integrating cultural psychological and biological perspectives in understanding child development Joan G. Miller Perspectives on development drawing from the universal and the specific Between individuals and culture: Individuals evaluations of exclusion from social groups Melanie Killen Heidi McGlothlin and Jennie Lee Kim Biology culture and child rearing: the development of social motives Hans Joachim Kornadt Perspectives on Development Informed by Evolutionary Thinking Development as the interface between biology and culture: a conceptualization of early ontogenetic experiences Heidi Keller Integrating evolution culture and developmental psychology: explaining caregiver infant proximity and responsiveness in central Africa and the USA Barry S. Hewlett and Michael E. Lamb Shame across cultures: the evolution ontogeny and function of a moral emotion Michael J. Casimir and Michael Schnegg Metaperspectives Culture and development Michael Cole Behaviour culture relationships and ontogenetic development Ype H. Poortinga and Karel Soudijn Paradigms revisited: from incommensurability to respected complementarity Lutz H. Eckensberger Epilogue: conceptions of ontogenetic development: integrating and demarcating perspectives Heidi Keller Ype H. Poortinga and Axel Schölmerich