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Adolescence in evolutionary perspective
Author(s) -
Bogin B
Publication year - 1994
Publication title -
acta pædiatrica
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.772
H-Index - 115
eISSN - 1651-2227
pISSN - 0803-5253
DOI - 10.1111/j.1651-2227.1994.tb13418.x
Subject(s) - perspective (graphical) , evolution theory , organism , fecundity , evolutionary theory , life history , variety (cybernetics) , evolutionary biology , human life , medicine , demography , developmental psychology , zoology , epistemology , biology , ecology , psychology , sociology , population , genetics , artificial intelligence , computer science , philosophy , stars , humanity , theology , computer vision
This article reviews progress in the application of evolution theory to human growth and development, particularly adolescence. Evolution theory includes a variety of topics and only two of these are treated here: life history and biocultural modelling. “A broad definition of life history includes not only the traditional foci such as age–related fecundity and mortality rates, but also the entire sequence of behavioural, physiological, and morphological changes that an organism passes through during its development from conception to death” (1). This approach may be applied to both the study of the stages of life of modern people and to the evolution of the human pattern of growth.