Apes and monkeys, humanity's closest kin, differ from other animals in the intensity of their social relationships. All their grooming is not so much about hygiene as it is ...

This book discusses the role of language as a cognitive and communicative tool in a child's early development.

Current primate research has yielded stunning results that not only threaten our underlying assumptions about the cognitive and communicative abilities of nonhuman primates ...

Cutting across the studies described are a number of common themes: an interest in individual differences; in using natural language data and observational methods as well as ...

This book shows that an early childhood setting can be described as a learning place in which children develop learning dispositions such as resilience in the face of ...

Published in association with Save the Children Priscilla Alderson examines the often overlooked issue of the rights of young children, starting with the question of how the ...

Los seres humanos aprenden a lo largo de su vida innumerables conocimientos necesarios para su supervivencia, que van desde actuar sobre los objetos, conocer a los otros, o ...