... and the influence of peers later in life. Adaptation Childhood Deferred adaptations Human life evolution of Immaturity period of Ontogenetic adaptations Social behavior Bogin B Bonobos Pan paniscus Breast milk Chimpanzees Pan troglodytes Concrete operations Encephalization quotient EQ Hominins Piaget...

...This book takes a developmental perspective on consciousness—its functional design in particular—and proposes that children's functional capacity for consciousness is assembled during development out of a variety of ontogenetic adaptations that respond mostly to sociocultural challenges specific...

... prenatal development Hartsoeker Nicolaas cognition infancy probabilistic cognitive mechanisms probabilistic epigenesis DeLoache Judy S LoBue Vanessa snakes adaptive response to attention deferred adaptations imitation neonatal imitation ontogenetic adaptations sex differences Boyce W Thomas...

... as ontogenetic adaptations — a term used to designate neurobehavioural attributes and capacities of immature animals, which may have evolved because of the adaptive functions they serve in ontogeny. An ontogenetic perspective on the development of emotional expression implies that there are likely to be changes...