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- Title
How Children Invented Humanity.
- Authors
Bjorklund, David F.
- Abstract
I use the commentaries of Legare, Clegg, and Wen and of Frankenhuis and Tiokhin as jumping-off points to discuss an issue hinted at both in my essay and their commentaries: How a developmental perspective can help us achieve a better understanding of evolution. I examine briefly how neoteny may have contributed to human morphology; how developmental plasticity in great apes, and presumably our common ancestor with them, may have led the way to advances in social cognition; and how the "invention" of childhood contributed to unique human cognitive abilities. I conclude by acknowledging that not all developmentalists have adopted an evolutionary perspective, but that we are approaching a time when an evolutionary perspective will be implicit in the thinking of all psychologists.
- Subjects
HUMANITY; BEHAVIOR evolution; SOCIAL perception; SOCIAL cognition theory (Communication); CHILD psychology; THOUGHT &; thinking; CHILD development
- Publication
Child Development, 2018, Vol 89, Issue 5, p1462
- ISSN
0009-3920
- Publication type
journal article
- DOI
10.1111/cdev.13020