In this review educational researchers are apprised of some potentially important developments in evolutionary biology. The field is outlined as it is spelled out in two recent books on sociobiology and behavior. The relationship between the two areas is discussed. (Author/GC)

A discussion of the dynamic interaction of nature and nurture variables in the development of an organism. A dialectical approach is used to integrate the possible interactions between these variables. (BD)

Notes that marital therapists have contribution to make to treatment of depression. In attempt to keep marital therapists aware of recent developments in the field, this article provides overview of findings concerning biology of depression, relative merits of medication versus psychotherapy, and complex relationships between marriage and…

Researchers examine how and why America's children are getting fatter and raise new questions about how to treat childhood obesity. (HOD)

A revolution in genetics is occurring, but when looking ahead, we must not romanticize the past. The social history of genetics, and American education's association with eugenics, make it necessary that we understand that both education and science are informed by social attitudes. (MT)

The article notes correlations between lefthandedness and the incidence of immune disorders (such as ileitis, colitis, celiac disease, and Hashimoto's thyroiditis), with learning disorders and with early grey hair. Eventual control of the hormonal and immune environment (in addition to educational intervention) may prevent or minimize these…

Briefly describes the current knowledge about the effects of environmental agents on man, and specifically outlines the action of a number of pollutants in the human body. Suggests guidelines for national and international action during the next decade to increase knowledge and understanding in this area. (JR)

Provides an overview of Canadian poverty in its biological, geographical, ecological, demographic, structural, psychological, cultural, and social dimensions, and suggests relevant references. (JM)

Measures of general cognitive ability in one- and two-year-old adopted and nonadopted infants and their parents were subjected to path analysis to estimate the contribution of genetic and environmental factors to short-term stability of mental ability. (Author/RH)

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,…

Birth order and maternal ages at time of birth were compared for 113 autistic children (3 to 12 years old) and the Iowa general population. An excess of mothers aged 35 or older was observed in the autistic group. A deviation from average in birth order was observed in autistics. (Author/SEW)

The matrix of pre- and perinatal biological and sociocultural correlates are reviewed in relation to infants who are subsequently identified as gifted. (Author/CL)

Reviews recent English-language literature on sexual abuse of children, focusing on incest and its biological as well as psychological effects. (Author/DB)

Discussed is the potential of vestigial structures and unexpressed developmental patterns from an organism's natural history to provide for rapid morphological change based on small genetic change which may call these suppressed attributes back into action in modified form. (RE)