Developmental psychobiology

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Developmental psychobiology is an interdisciplinary field between developmental psychology, biological psychology, neuroscience and many other areas of biology, covering the study of all phases of organismic ontogeny, employing and integrating both biological and psychological concepts and methods (cf. Michel & Moore, 1995). Developmental psychobiologists tend to be systems thinkers, avoiding the reification of artificial dichotomies (e.g., "nature" vs. "nurture") and the arguments they engender. Developmental psychobiologists have also historically been highly concerned with the interrelation between ontogeny and phylogeny (or individual development and evolutionary processes; see, e.g., Blumberg, 2002, 2005; Gottlieb, 1991).

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  • Michel, G. F., & Moore, C. L. (1995). Developmental Psychobiology: An Interdisciplinary Science. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.[1]
  • Blumberg, M.S. (2002). Body Heat: Temperature and Life On Earth. Harvard University Press.[2]
  • Blumberg, M.S. (2005). Basic Instinct: The Genesis of Behavior. Basic Books.[3]
  • Gottlieb, G. (1991). Individual Development and Evolution: The Genesis of Novel Behavior. Oxford University Press.[4]

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