Abstract
A biocultural approach is taken to the study of the evolution of human growth and development. The biocultural perspective of human development focuses on the constant interaction taking place during all phases of human development, between both genes and hormones within the body, and with the sociocultural environment that surrounds the body. The pattern of human postnatal growth and development—the stages of infancy, childhood, juvenility, and adolescence is reviewed. Several hypotheses are discussed concerning how the new life stages of the human life cycle represent feeding and reproductive specializations, secondarily allowing for the human style of learning and cultural behavior.
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