Re: Evolved Human Growth Periods

On May 9, 1:10 pm, Tom Hendricks <tom-hendri...@xxxxxxx> wrote:
More and more I think that there are certain 'windows
of opportunity' in human infant development that set
the pattern for the rest of that person's life.

Have you looked into the work of Piaget? Piaget did some very
interesting work on the stages of cognitive development in human
beings.
His biological model was rather flawed. He explained his results
in terms of the Haekel model (i.e., ontology recapitulates phylogeny).
Maybe that is why you don't mention it.
However, I propose his observations on ontology are correct. That
is, I don't think human history follows the stages of development he
describes. However, I conjecture that children really go through these
"windows of opportunity" for learning certain things.
Furthermore, I propose the ontology that he describes could be fit
into an evo-devo model. For example, it seems likely to me that the
"concrete" and "formal" stages of human development may be associated
with certain regulatory genes being switched on.
I wonder if there are any experiments that can associate the
switching on and off of genes with the ontology of cognitive
development.

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