This text is the first to provide a coherent theoretical treatment of the                  flourishing new field of developmental psychobiology which has arisen in recent                  years on the crest of exciting advances in evolutionary biology, developmental                  neuroscience, and dynamic systems theory.Michel and Moore, two of the field's key                  pioneers and researchers, integrate primary source information from research in both                  biological and psychological disciplines in a clear account of the frontier of                  biopsychological investigation and theorizing.Explicitly conceptual and historical,                  the first three chapters set the stage for a clear understanding of the field and                  its research, with particular attention to the nature-nurture question. The next                  three chapters each provide information about a basic subfield in biology (genetics,                  evolution, embryology) that is particularly relevant for developmental studies of                  behavior. These are followed by extended treatments of three spheres of inquiry                  (behavioral embryology, cognitive neuroscience, animal behavior) in terms of how a                  successful interdisciplinary approach to behavioral development might look. A final                  chapter comments on some of the unique aspects of development study.From this                  detailed and clearly organized text, students will achieve a firm grasp of some of                  science's most fertile questions about the relation between evolution and                  development, the relation between brain and cognitive development, the value of a                  natural history approach to animal behavior -- and what it teaches us about humans                  -- and much more. Each chapter contains material that questions the conventional                  wisdom held in many subdisciplines of biology and psychology. Throughout, the text                  challenges students to think creatively as it thoroughly grounds them in the field's                  approach to such topics as behavioral-genetic analysis, the concept of innateness,                  molecular genetics and development, neuroembryology, behavioral embryology,                  maturation, cognition, and ethology.A Bradford Book

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