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Peer reviewedWeisfeld, G. E.; Berger, J. M. – Human Development, 1983
Focuses on some apparently evolved features of human adolescence and their possible functions, including the pubertal growth spurt, sexual size dimorphism and bimaturism, the greater aggressiveness of males, heightened concern with one's social standing and the factors affecting it, intergenerational friction, same-sex aggregations and solidarity,…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Aggression, Biological Influences, Competition
Peer reviewedBrent, S. B. – Human Development, 1978
A dialectical approach is used to explore the relationship between individual specialization, collective adaptation, and rate of environmental change for both higher and lower organisms. The nature-nurture controversy and the "generation gap" are discussed in terms of this interrelationship. (BD)
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Biological Influences, Conceptual Schemes, Environmental Influences
