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Mother Knows Best: Epigenetic Inheritance, Maternal Effects, and the Evolution of Human Intelligence
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Direct linkBjorklund, David F. – Developmental Review, 2006
Contemporary evolution biology has recognized the role of development in evolution. Evolutionarily oriented psychologists have similarly recognized the role that behavioral plasticity, particularly early in development, may have had on the evolution of species, harking back to the ideas of Baldwin (the Baldwin effect). Epigenetic theories of…
Descriptors: Mothers, Genetics, Evolution, Intelligence
Maestripieri, Dario; Roney, James R. – Developmental Review, 2006
Evolutionary developmental psychology is a discipline that has the potential to integrate conceptual approaches to the study of behavioral development derived from psychology and biology as well as empirical data from humans and animals. Comparative research with animals, and especially with nonhuman primates, can provide evidence of adaptation in…
Descriptors: Developmental Psychology, Primatology, Evolution, Animals
