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Richard M. Lerner
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Professor of Family and Child Ecology and of Psychology; Director, Institute for Children, Youth, and Families, Michigan State University, East Lansing. Author of Concepts and Theories of Human Development and others.

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A newborn baby, wrapped in a blanket, grasps an adult's finger with its hand, demonstrating the palmar grasp reflex.
Human behaviour, the potential and expressed capacity for physical, mental, and social activity during the phases of human life. Humans, like other animal species, have a typical life course that consists of successive phases of growth, each of which is characterized by a distinct set of physical,…
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