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Title: How Children Invented Humanity.
Authors: Bjorklund, David F.
Source: Child Development. Sep/Oct2018, Vol. 89 Issue 5, p1462-1466. 5p.
Subjects: Humanity, Behavior evolution, Social perception, Social cognition theory (Communication), Child psychology, Thought & thinking, Child development
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. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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