Based on the 25th Anniversary Symposium of the Jean Piaget
Society, this book represents cutting-edge work on the mechanisms
of cognitive, social, and cultural development. The
authors-anthropologists, biologists, historians of science,
paleontologists, and psychologists-believe that a rebirth is in
progress relating to the study of these mental developments. This
volume seeks to illuminate this rebirth.
The varied findings and approaches reported reveal that
contemporary comparative research on mental development is in a
phase of differentiation and integration. Far from being global and
fused, this comparative study is a flowering field of diverse
disciplinary approaches, empirical phenomena, scholarly topics, and
theoretical perspectives. It focuses on the comparative phylogeny,
ontogeny, and history of mentation-most notably on the comparative
onset and offset ages, velocity, extent, sequencing, organization
of thought, symbol, and value development. The world's leading
authorities on the subject discuss the implications of the study of
evolution for our models of the ontogenetic origins, development,
and history of mentation, as well as determine the constraints that
evolution imposes on mental development.
Bringing the current interest in primate cognition to bear on
studies of cognitive development in humans, this book will be of
interest cognitive developmentalists, primatologists and
comparitive psychologists.
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