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| Preface | |
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| Contributors | |
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| Notes from the Editors | |
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| Human Nature: The Effects of Evolution and Environment | |
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| The Value of Using an Evolutionary Framework for Gauging Children's Well-Being | |
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| Bowlby's "Environment of Evolutionary Adaptedness": Recent Studies on the Interpersonal Neurobiology of Attachment and Emotional Development | |
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| Commentary: Early Experience, Neurobiology, Plasticity, Vulnerability, and Resilience | |
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| How Primary-Process Emotional Systems Guide Child Development: Ancestral Regulators of Human Happiness, Thriving, and Suffering | |
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| Commentary: The Integrative Meaning of Emotion | |
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| Epigenetics and the Environmental Regulation of the Genome and Its Function | |
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| Commentary: The Messages of Epigenetic Research | |
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| Neurobiology and the Evolution of Mammalian Social Behavior | |
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| Dopamine: Another "Magic Bullet" for Caregiver Responsiveness? | |
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| The Neurobiological Basis of Empathy and Its Development in the Context of Our Evolutionary Heritage | |
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| Commentary: The Death of Empathy? | |
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| Commentary: Born for Art, and the Joyful Companionship of Fiction | |
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| Early Experience: The Effects of Cultural Practice | |
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| Birth and the First Postnatal Hour | |
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| Nighttime Nurturing: An Evolutionary Perspective on Breastfeeding and Sleep | |
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| Touch and Pain Perception in Infants | |
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| Infant Feeding Practices: Rates, Risks of Not Breastfeeding, and Factors Influencing Breastfeeding | |
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| Commentary: Short-Term and Long-Term Effects of Oxytocin Released by Suckling and of Skin-to-Skin Contact in Mothers and Infants | |
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| Developmental Optimization | |
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| Commentary: Darwin et al. on Developmental Optimization | |
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| Commentary: Adaptations and Adaptations | |
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| Themes in Human Evolution | |
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| Play, Plasticity, and Ontogeny in Childhood | |
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| The Value of a Play-Filled Childhood in Development of the Hunter-Gatherer Individual | |
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| Rough-and-Tumble Play and the Cooperation-Competition Dilemma: Evolutionary and Developmental Perspectives on the Development of Social Competence | |
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| Commentary: Play in Hunter-Gatherers | |
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| Perspectives and Counterperspectives | |
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| Perspective 1: Why Would Natural Selection Craft on Organism Whose Future Functioning Is Influenced by Its Earlier Experiences? | |
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| Perspective 2: Play, Plasticity, and the Perils of Conflict: "Problematizing" Sociobiology | |
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| Perspective 3: The Emergent Organism: A New Paradigm | |
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| Perspective 4: Can Science Progress to a Revitalized Past? | |
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| Perspective 5: Earliest Experiences and Attachment Processes | |
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| Perspective 6: Nurturant Versus Nonnurturant Environments and the Failure of the Environment of Evolutionary Adaptedness | |
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| Perspective 7: "It's Dangerous to Be an Infant": Ongoing Relevance of John Bowlby's Environment of Evolutionary Adaptedness in Promoting Healthier Births, Safer Maternal-Infant Sleep, and Breastfeeding in a Contemporary Western Industrial Context | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| The Future of Human Nature: Implications for Research, Policy, and Ethics | |
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| About the Editors | |
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| Index | |