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Ethology and human development

Evaluates the results of several decades of ethological work on developmental psychology. It looks at human development from the context of the natural world, thereby re-establishing the links, begun with Charles Darwin, between research on child development and animal behaviour
Print Book, English, 1992
Harvester Wheatsheaf, New York, 1992
viii, 273 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
9780745009162, 9780745009179, 9780389209966, 0745009166, 0745009174, 0389209961
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An historical overview of the impact of ethology on child development; observational methods; animal models; the transfer of general principles of development ethological approaches to motivation; non-verbal communication and the expression of emotions; social ethology - dominance and other social processes; ethology and the comparative approach; ethology as an integrating force in the social sciences.