Growing Young: Second Edition » (2nd Edition)

ASHLEY MONTAGU is an Anthropologist who has taught at Harvard, Princeton, University of California, and New York University and has written more than fifty books, including: Life Before Birth, Touching, Man's Most Dangerous Myth: The Fallacy of Race, On Being Human, The Nature of Human Agression, The Natural Superiority of Women, and The Peace of the World.

"The best statement ever written on the most important, neglected theme of human life and evolution." Stephen Jay Gould, Harvard University

Preface

Introduction

Neoteny and Human Biological Evolution

The Evolution of Human Behavior

Advantages of Immaturity: A Womb with a View

The Child

The Neotenous Traits of the Child

Those Whom the Gods Love

Import

Appendix: The History of Neoteny

Index