Importing the homology concept from biology into developmental psychology.
To help introduce the idea of homology into developmental psychology, this article presents some of the concepts, distinctions, and guidelines biologists and philosophers of biology have devised to study homology. Some unresolved issues related to this idea are considered as well. Because homology reflects continuity across time, developmental scientists should find this concept to be useful in the study of psychological/behavioral development, just as biologists have found it essential in the study of the evolution and development of morphological and other characteristics.
Pitzer College & Claremont Graduate University, Claremont, CA 91711, USA. dmoore@pitzer.edu
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