Features
- Cover Type: Paperback with 416 pages
- Published by: Basic Books
- Edition: 1st Edition May 30, 1999
- Written in: English
- ISBN 10 Number: 0813333180
- ISBN 13 Number: 978-0813333182
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Book Dimensions:
9 x 5.9 x 0.9 inches
- Weighs: 1.3 pounds
Product Description
An exploration of human adolescence, this book is unique because of its ethological perspective. The author presents a comprehensive treatment of adolescent development from a functional, evolutionary point of view, providing a research-based description of human adolescence. He also offers a comparative perspective, describing adolescence in other species, human cultures, and historical periods.
About The Author
Glenn Weisfeld is associate professor of psychology at Wayne State University. He is the coeditor, with Nancy L. Segal and Carol C. Weisfeld, of
Uniting Psychology and Biology: Integrative Perspectives on Human Development (1997) and editor of the
Human Ethology Bulletin.
Reader ReviewsIt is not easy to find a great book about adolescence and evolution! Glenn Weisfeld helped enormously to the understanding of this period of changes and the human development, specially for the human behavior evolution student.