The Evolution of Childhood: The Role of Development in Explaining Human Uniqueness February 23, 2011

An Evolution Matters lecture by Melvin Konner
Understanding origins must include the origins of childhood. In his newest book, anthropologist and neuroscientist Melvin Konner offers a sweeping overview of how relationships, emotion, and mind emerged from the uniquely human nature of children and how we care for them. It has been said that nothing in biology makes sense except in the light of evolution, and Dr. Konner shows that nothing in childhood does either.

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