2003/12/31 by Julie S. Johnson-Pynn, Dorothy M. Fragaszy, Sarah Cummins‐Sebree · 1 citation
Psychology · #Child and Animal Learning Development #Cultural Differences and Values #Primate Behavior and Ecology
paper · pdf · doi:10.46867/c4d308
openalex publication_date 2003/12/31 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/04
Comparative and developmental psychology have impacted one another for well over 100 years. Researchers have studied developmental processes of humans and nonhumans to formulate evolutionary theories and to determine the contributions of hereditary and experiential factors at ontogenetic and phylogenetic levels. We discuss current directions in comparative and developmental research that attend to micro-developmental processes and ecological contexts as sources of variability in humans and nonhumans. This research has been a segue into studies of behavior that are integrative in scope, such the family of systems theories, which cross disciplinary boundaries. We present findings from our research on instrumental manual activity in human and nonhuman primates from a systems perspective, and argue that integrative systems approaches hold promise for understanding individuals and development of behavior across species.