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The Evolutionary Origins of Developmental Psychology
Contributor(s): Wozniak, Robert H. (Editor)
ISBN: 0415131154     ISBN-13: 9780415131155
Publisher: Routledge
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Product Type: Hardcover
Published: December 1995
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Developmental psychology emerged within the evolutionary, progressive though of the late 19th century. Concerned with processes by which new forms develop and new phenomena emerge, evolutionary thinking turned readily to the natural history of childhood. This series of seminal writings defines that movement. In 1877 the great biologist, Charles Darwin, and the philosopher, Hippolyte Taine, published short observations on the early development of their own children. When Wilhelm Preyer, a highly respected physiologist, followed with his own remarkable and much more extensive observations, the biographical study of childhood had begun in earnest.

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BISAC Categories:
- Psychology
- Philosophy
Dewey: 155
Series: History of Psychology
 
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Developmental psychology emerged within the evolutionary, progressive thought of the later part of the 19th century. Concerned with processes by which new forms develop and new phenmena emerge, evolutionary thinking turned readily to the natural history of childhood. In 1877, the great biologist, Charles Darwin, and the philosopher, Hippolyte Taine, published short observations on the early development of their own children. When Wilhelm Preyer, a highly respected physiologiest, followed with his own remarkable and much more extensive observations, the biographical study of childhood had begun in earnest. This series reprints seminal text that defined this movement.