Describe Several Ways in Which the Unevenness of Child Development

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Essay

Describe several ways in which the unevenness of child development is influenced by culture. Explain.

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Definitions:

Generations

Sequential stages in the familial lineage, where an individual's successors are considered a new generation.

Disruptive Selection

A special type of directional selection in which changes in the environment favor two or more variant phenotypes at the expense of the mean. Compare with stabilizing selection and directional selection.

Directional Selection

A mode of natural selection in which an extreme phenotype is favored over other phenotypes, causing the allele frequency to shift over time in the direction of that phenotype.

Trend

A general direction in which something is developing or changing; often used to describe patterns or tendencies in data.