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Preface | |
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Acknowledgments | |
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The Benefits of Youth | |
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Rushing through Childhood | |
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Views of Development | |
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A Darwinian Perspective | |
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I Come Not to Praise Immaturity | |
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The Youngest Species | |
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A Brief Look at Human Evolution | |
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The Evolution of Childhood | |
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Timing is Everything | |
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The Youngest Species | |
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The Slow Rate of Growing Up | |
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The Gamble of Delayed Development | |
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Big Brains, Social Complexity, and Slow Development | |
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Cooperating and Competing | |
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Family Matters | |
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Slow Growth and Brain Plasticity | |
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Developmental Plasticity and Evolution | |
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When Slow is Fast Enough | |
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Adapting to the Niche of Childhood | |
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The Benefits of Limitations | |
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See Things My Way | |
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Learning Language | |
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How Do Adults View Children's Immature Thinking? | |
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Adapting to Childhood | |
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The Advantages of Thinking You're Better than You Are | |
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The Development of Metacognition - Knowing What We Know | |
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Some Benefits of Less-Than-Perfect Metacognition | |
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When We Deal with Children | |
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Know Thyself, But Not Too Well | |
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Play: The Royal Road through Childhood | |
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What is Play? | |
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The Adaptive Value of Play | |
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Children Playing, Children Learning | |
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Play it Again, Kid | |
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The Most Educable of Animals | |
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The Myth of "Earlier is Better" | |
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Prenatal Learning | |
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Early (Postnatal) Learning | |
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Developmentally Appropriate Practices in Early Education | |
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Stress in the Schoolhouse | |
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Old Brain, New Curriculum | |
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The Changing Face of Childhood | |
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Pushing Children through Childhood | |
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A Brief History of Childhood | |
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The Costs of Ignoring Immaturity: The Well-being of America's Children | |
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The Independent Human Juvenile: A New View of Childhood? | |
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Racing to Adulthood, Prolonging Adolescence | |
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Epilogue: Homo Juvenalis | |
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Revisiting Childhood | |
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Visiting Adulthood | |
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Notes | |
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References | |
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Index | |