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Human Infancy - An Evolutionary Perspective (Hardcover)
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Human Infancy - An Evolutionary Perspective (Hardcover)
Series: Psychology Library Editions: Cognitive Science
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Total price: R3,897
Discovery Miles: 38 970
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Originally published in 1974, this volume is primarily devoted to
what is known about human infancy from an ethological, evolutionary
viewpoint. Included are discussions of pan-specific traits,
presumably shared by all infants; individual genetic variations on
these behaviours (as judged by twin-studies); sex differences,
presumably shared by infants of all ethnic groups; and genetically
based ethnic differences. However, the author favours neither
biological determinism nor cultural determinism, and does not
consider 'interactionism' to be a viable solution. Instead, a
monistic position is taken, stressing the inseparability of the
innate and the acquired, of genetics and environment, and of
biology and culture. The heredity-environment issue is tackled
head-on throughout the volume. The interaction between the two (an
implied dualism) is described as a statistical abstraction from
measured populations, while the position here is that heredity and
environment are not separable in any single organism. In the same
vein, the author argues that on logical grounds everything one
does, every 'cultural' act, has within it some biological
component.
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