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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewThis ambitious book asks such profound questions as: Where do we come from? Why and how are we who we are? In light of evolutionary theory, the authors concentrate specifically on interpersonal experiences early in life and their influence on later health... The text provides a window into the pioneering work in the study of human evolution. * Journal of the Norwegian Medical Association, July 2013 *
Table of ContentsContributors ; Editors ; SECTION I HUMAN NATURE: THE EFFECTS OF EVOLUTION AND ENVIRONMENT ; Chapter 1. The Value of the Environment of Evolutionary Adaptedness for gauging children's well-being ; Darcia Narvaez, Jaak Panksepp, Allan Schore, Tracy Gleason ; Chapter 2. Bowlby's "Environment of evolutionary adaptedness": Recent studies on the interpersonal neurobiology of attachment and emotional development ; Allan Schore ; Commentary: Early experience, neurobiology, plasticity, vulnerability and resilience by Michael Lamb ; Chapter 3. How primary-process emotional systems guide child development: Ancestral regulators of human happiness, thriving and suffering ; Jaak Panksepp ; Commentary: The integrative meaning of emotion by Daniel Siegel ; Chapter 4. Epigenetics and the environmental regulation of the genome and its function ; Michael Meaney ; Commentary: The messages of epigenetic research by Jerome Kagan ; Chapter 5. Neurobiology and the evolution of mammalian social behavior ; C. Sue Carter and Stephen W. Porges ; Chapter 6. Dopamine: Another 'magic bullet' for caregiver responsiveness? ; Alison Fleming, Viara Mileva-Seitz, Veronica M. Afonso ; Chapter 7. The Neurobiological basis of empathy and its development in the environment of evolutionary adaptedness ; Eric E. Nelson ; Commentary: The Death of Empathy? by Bruce Perry ; SECTION COMMENTARY: Born For Art, and the Joyful Companionship of Fiction by Colwyn Trevarthen ; SECTION II: EARLY EXPERIENCE: THE EFFECTS OF CULTURAL PRACTICE ; Chapter 8. Birth and the first postnatal hour ; Wenda R. Trevathan ; Chapter 9. Night-time nurturing: an evolutionary perspective on breastfeeding and sleep ; Helen Ball and Charlotte Russell ; Chapter 10. Touch and pain perception in infants ; Tiffany Field and Maria Hernandez-Reif ; Chapter 11. Infant feeding practices: rates, risks of not breastfeeding and factors influencing breastfeeding ; Zaharah Sulaiman, Lisa H. Amir and Pranee Liamputtong ; Commentary: Short term and long term effects of oxytocin released by suckling and of skin to skin contact in mothers and infants by Kerstin Uvnas Moberg ; Chapter 12. Developmental optimization ; Darcia Narvaez & Tracy Gleason ; Commentary: Darwin et al. on developmental optimization by David Loye ; SECTION COMMENTARY: Adaptations and Adaptations by Ross Thompson ; SECTION III: THEMES IN HUMAN EVOLUTION ; Chapter 13. Play, plasticity, and ontogeny in childhood ; Anthony D. Pellegrini and Adam F. A. Pellegrini ; Chapter 14. The Value of a play-filled childhood in development of the hunter-gatherer individual ; Peter Gray ; Chapter 15. Rough-and-tumble play and the cooperation-competition dilemma: Evolutionary and developmental perspectives on the development of social competence ; Joseph L. Flanders, Khalisa N. Herman, and Daniel Paquette ; Commentary: Play in Hunter-Gatherers by Barry Hewlett and Adam H. Boyette ; SECTION IV: PERSPECTIVES AND COUNTERPERSPECTIVES ; Chapter 16. Perspective 1: Why would natural selection craft an organism whose future functioning is influenced by its earlier experiences? ; Jay Belsky ; Chapter 17. Perspective 2: Play, Plasticity, and the Perils of Conflict: 'Problematizing' Sociobiology ; Melvin Konner ; Chapter 18. Perspective 3: The Emergent Organism: A New Paradigm ; William Mason ; Chapter 19. Perspective 4: Can science progress to a revitalized past? ; Gay Bradshaw ; Chapter 20. Perspective 5: Earliest experiences and attachment processes ; Howard Steele ; Chapter 21. Perspective 6: Nurturant vs. non-nurturant environments and the failure of the Environment of Evolutionary Adaptedness ; James W. Prescott ; Chapter 22. Perspective 7: It's dangerous to be an infant: on-going relevance of John Bowlby's Environment of Evolutionary Adaptedness (the EEA) in promoting healthier births, safer maternal-infant sleep, and breastfeeding in a contemporary western industrial context ; James J. McKenna and Lee T. Gettler ; SECTION V: CONCLUSION ; Chapter 23. The Future of human nature: Implications for research, policy, and ethics ; Darcia Narvaez, Jaak Panksepp, Allan Schore and Tracy Gleason ; Subject Index ; Author Index
