Eine evolutionsbiologische betrachtung der menschlichen frühentwicklung

Abstract

The author presents an evolution-biological perspective on the course of human life. The central argument ist that the organization of individual life phases contributes in each case to the maximization of an individual's "overall fitness". The early development during the first months of a child's life in the context of bonding is discussed with regard to the differentiation of diverse strategies of reproduction. The author thus tries to achieve an integration of developmental-psychological knowledge and socio-biological assumptions. This approach seems to allow for reformulations of the concept of learning in educational psychology.