The evolution of beasts and babies: Recapitulation, instinct, and the early discourse on child development.
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| Title: | The evolution of beasts and babies: Recapitulation, instinct, and the early discourse on child development. |
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| Authors: | Noon, David Hoogland |
| Source: | Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences. Fall2005, Vol. 41 Issue 4, p367-386. 20p. |
| Subjects: | Child development, Life sciences, Instinct (Behavior), Child psychology, Children |
| Abstract: | The field of “child study” emerged at the end of the nineteenth century with the purpose of disclosing children's “nature” for the benefit of parents, educators, psychologists, and other interested groups. Borrowed from the biological sciences, narratives of biological recapitulation were common in the discourses about child development during this period. Such theories often measured children against “savages,” but they also suggested that the study of childhood offered clues into the evolutionary relationships between humans and animals. By emphasizing the relevance of children's “instincts,” observers of child development explained child behavior as the tissue that linked humans and animals. © 2005 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
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| Database: | Psychology and Behavioral Sciences Collection |
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