Human Infancy

Human Infancy
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Publisher : Routledge
Total Pages : 227
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ISBN-10 : 9781317210498
ISBN-13 : 1317210492
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Book Synopsis Human Infancy by : Daniel G. Freedman

Download or read book Human Infancy written by Daniel G. Freedman and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-07-07 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1974, this volume is primarily devoted to what is known about human infancy from an ethological, evolutionary viewpoint. Included are discussions of pan-specific traits, presumably shared by all infants; individual genetic variations on these behaviours (as judged by twin-studies); sex differences, presumably shared by infants of all ethnic groups; and genetically based ethnic differences. However, the author favours neither biological determinism nor cultural determinism, and does not consider ‘interactionism’ to be a viable solution. Instead, a monistic position is taken, stressing the inseparability of the innate and the acquired, of genetics and environment, and of biology and culture. The heredity-environment issue is tackled head-on throughout the volume. The interaction between the two (an implied dualism) is described as a statistical abstraction from measured populations, while the position here is that heredity and environment are not separable in any single organism. In the same vein, the author argues that on logical grounds everything one does, every ‘cultural’ act, has within it some biological component.


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