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Area of Science:

  • Human evolutionary biology
  • Developmental psychology
  • Pediatrics

Background:

  • Human infancy is a brief developmental stage (2-3 years) characterized by specific biological, cognitive, and social milestones.
  • These milestones include breastfeeding, sensorimotor development, language acquisition, mini-puberty, deciduous dentition, and skull growth.
  • Traditionally, infancy concludes with the infancy-childhood transition (ICT) and maternal separation.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To present data and theory supporting the contention that key infant traits have become uncoupled in modern affluent societies.
  • To analyze the dissociation of biological, cognitive, and social maturation during human infancy.
  • To propose a new understanding of infant development in contemporary contexts.

Main Methods:

  • Review of existing data on human life history and infant development.
  • Theoretical analysis of the coupling and decoupling of developmental milestones.
  • Comparative analysis of traditional and modern infant developmental trajectories.

Main Results:

  • Biological markers like mini-puberty and ICT, along with language acquisition, manifest before age 1.
  • Cognitive development (sensorimotor) is completed by age 2.
  • Social development, specifically maternal separation, occurs between ages 1 and 3 years.

Conclusions:

  • Human infancy was historically a coherent stage with coupled biological, cognitive, and social maturation.
  • In contemporary industrial societies, these developmental aspects have dissociated.
  • Infant upbringing requires adapting to this new "dissociated infancy" and its revised life-history timetable.