Childhood and human evolution / by Friedrich Kipp ; translated by John Michael Barnes.
"In this groundbreaking work, Friedrich Kipp shows that childhood and youth - an extended period of nurture and protection from the struggle for existence - have been, and will continue to be, a necessary condition for human evolution. His observations confirm our intuitive feeling that this pr...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English German |
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Ghent, N.Y. :
Adonis,
[2005]
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| Summary: | "In this groundbreaking work, Friedrich Kipp shows that childhood and youth - an extended period of nurture and protection from the struggle for existence - have been, and will continue to be, a necessary condition for human evolution. His observations confirm our intuitive feeling that this prolonged phase of human life holds the promise of our future." "Kipp's comparative study of the juvenile stage in animals and humans also sheds surprising new light on the process of human evolution and our relation to the animal primates. In their earliest developmental stage, animals - and the animal primates in particular - display characteristics reminiscent of human children. However, these more universal, humanlike characteristics are quickly lost as the animals adapt to specific ecological conditions. The animals' early closeness to the human form and their developmental trajectory away from the human suggest that the main trunk of the evolutionary tree is intimately associated with human evolution."--BOOK JACKET. |
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| Item Description: | Translated from the German 2nd ed., published in 1991 by Verlag Freies Geistesleben, Stuttgart. |
| Physical Description: | viii, 124 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| ISBN: | 0932776337 9780932776334 |