Biology, brains, and behavior : the evolution of human development / edited by Sue Taylor Parker, Jonas Langer, and Michael L. McKinney.

Santa Fe, N.M. : School of American Research Press ; Oxford : James Currey, 2000.

xiii, 386 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Based on a seminar held in Aug. 1995 in Santa Fe, N.M.

Comparative developmental evolutionary biology, anthropology, and psychology : convergences in the study of human behavioral ontogeny / Sue Taylor Parker -- Evolving behavioral complexity by extending development / Michael L. McKinney -- Heterochrony in brain evolution : cellular versus morphological analyses / Terrence W. Deacon -- The ontogeny and phylogeny of language : a neural network perspective / Elizabeth Bates and Jeffrey Elman -- The developmental timing of primate play : a neural selection model / Lynn A. Fairbanks -- Evolutionary development, life histories and brain size : finding connections via a multivariate method / John Gittleman ... [et al.] -- Current issues in the investigation of evolution by heterochrony, with emphasis on the debate over human neoteny / Brian Shea -- The heterochronic evolution of primate cognitive development / Jonas Langer -- Cultural apprenticeship and cultural change : tool learning and imitation in chimpanzees and humans / Patricia Greenfield ... [et al.] -- Homo erectus infancy and childhood : the turning point in the evolution of behavioral development in hominids / Sue Taylor Parker.

Includes bibliographical references and index.