The evolution of childhood
Subtitle: relationships, emotion, mind
By: Melvin Konner.
Publisher: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Cambridge, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 943
ISBN-13: 9780674045668
Subjects: Childhood; Child development; Children -- Anthropometry; Emotions in children; Human evolution
Description: Takes a comprehensive Darwinian interpretation of human development. Looking at the entire range of human evolutionary history, Konner tells the story of how cross-cultural and universal characteristics of our growth from infancy to adolescence became rooted in genetically inherited characteristics of the human brain--From publisher description.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.