This 8 minute video offers an excellent overview of infant postural and dynamic reflexes, and how these reflexes underly more complex motor and cognitive functions. However, some of the statements made in the video about the influence of...
Category - Evolution and Child Development
Examines human development through evolutionary biology, covering auditory and vision optimization, reflex integration, and movement mechanics. It explores the transition from primal to conscious movement, integrating insights from biology, anthropology, and physiology to understand human capabilities and evolution.
Babies (DVD):Culture has a profound influence on the developmental trajectory of infants. Although somewhat obvious, it is highly educational to observe how settings and attitudes define the opportunities for growing children. The documentary...
Over the last 30 years it has come to be accepted that very small children have abstract, structured, coherent, causal representations of the world around them - representations that are similar to scientific theories. They use those...
Explores the gut microbiome's critical role in health, emphasizing its influence on metabolism, disease resistance, and systemic health, advocating for a balanced diet, prebiotics, and probiotics to maintain a healthy microbiome, linking it to...
This is a very nice website dedicated to informing a general audience about the "Tree Of Life".
When our automatic reflexes are working well, we rarely even notice. These extremely fast reactions happen much quicker than would be possible if we had to think through the best option for that circumstance, making reflexes incredibly useful...
BackgroundMoving around has always been at the top of every evolutionary “got to have” checklist. From Jellyfish to fish of all stripes, to land animals to us, improvements in locomotion confer a survival advantage. It is...
Our lymph system is a circulatory system not unlike our vascular system with one major difference, it doesn’t have a pump(heart). Lymph is also a return-only network, the vascular equivalent of veins, and uses our arteries to bring lymph...
It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is most adaptable to change.
Development during our first weeks, months, and years relies heavily on our reflexes. Reflexes are congenital behavioral patterns that enable us to understand stimuli and respond appropriately. An example is a stimulus on the cheek that will...