This essay will concentrate, therefore, on human development during the first 12 years of life. This article discusses the development of human behaviour. For treatment of biological development, see …

Looked at from an even broader comparative perspective, these general human behaviour patterns reflect powerful principles that apply widely across the animal kingdom.

In the life course, genetic endowment and biology interact with cultural context and experience to shape the development of human behaviour.

Human behaviour - Personality, Socialization, Development: Several theories of personality development stress that adulthood and aging are periods of qualitative change, of discontinuity, and …

instinct, an inborn impulse or motivation to action typically performed in response to specific external stimuli. Today instinct is generally described as a stereotyped, apparently unlearned, genetically …

Nov 14, 2025 · Two major determinants of human sexual activity are the inherited sexual response patterns that have evolved as a means of ensuring reproduction and the degree of restraint exerted …

When things and events are considered in the context of their relation to the human organism, they constitute behaviour; when they are considered not in terms of their relation to the human organism …

Human development during the 38 weeks from conception to birth is divided into three phases. The first, the germinal period, lasts from the moment of conception until the time the fertilized egg is implanted …

Oct 27, 2025 · Physical anthropologists work broadly on three major sets of problems: human and nonhuman primate evolution, human variation and its significance, and the biological bases of …

Nov 25, 2025 · Social science, any branch of academic study or science that deals with human behavior in its social and cultural aspects. Usually included within the social sciences are cultural (or social) …