The juvenile transition: A developmental switch point in human life history

Publication year: 2009 Source: Developmental Review, Volume 29, Issue 1, March 2009, Pages 1-31 Marco Del Giudice, Romina Angeleri, Valeria Manera This paper presents a new perspective on the transition from early to middle childhood (i.e., human juvenility), investigated in an integrative evolutionary framework. Juvenility is a crucial life history stage, when social learning and interaction with peers become central developmental functions; here it is argued that the “juvenile transition” is a developmental switch point in the human life history, when both sex-related and individual differences in reproductive strategies are expressed after the assessment period provided by early childhood.

Publication year: 2009 Source: Developmental Review, Volume 29, Issue 1, March 2009, Pages 1-31 Marco Del Giudice, Romina Angeleri, Valeria Manera This paper presents a new perspective on the transition from early to middle childhood (i.e., human juvenility), investigated in an integrative evolutionary framework. Juvenility is a crucial life history stage, when social learning and interaction with peers become central developmental functions; here it is argued that the “juvenile transition” is a developmental switch point in the human life history, when both sex-related and individual differences in reproductive strategies are expressed after the assessment period provided by early childhood.

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The juvenile transition: A developmental switch point in human life history

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