title: Rethinking Cells to Society.
abstract: It is an exciting time to be a developmental scientist. We have advanced theoretical frameworks and developed ground-breaking methods for addressing questions of interest, ranging literally from cells to society. We know more now than we have ever known about human development and the base of acquired knowledge is increasing exponentially. In this paper we share some thoughts about where we are in the science of human development, how we got there, what may be going wrong and what may be going right. Finally, we offer some thoughts about where we go from here to assure that in the future we achieve the best developmental science possible.
authors: Institute for Social Research at the University of Michigan.
authors: Toni C
authors: TC
authors: Antonucci
authors: Institute for Social Research at the University of Michigan.
authors: Noah J
authors: NJ
authors: Webster
keywords: epigenetics; life course development; life span development; systems theory
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