How Children Invented Humanity —— The Role of Development in Human Evolution

----- 儿童如何发明人类：发展在人类进化中的作用

ISBN: 9780190066864 出版年：2020 页码：393 Bjorklund, David F Oxford University Press

Infants and children are the often-ignored heroes when it comes to understanding human evolution. Evolutionary pressures acted upon the young of our ancestors more powerfully than on adults, and changes over the course of development in our ancestors were primarily responsible for the species and the people we have become. This book takes an evolutionary developmental perspective, emphasizing that developmental plasticity--the ability to change our physical and psychological selves early in life--is the creative force in evolution.