Homology in Developmental Psychology

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...

Introduction. Homology in developmental psychology.

Evo-Devo Meets the Mind: Towards a developmental evolutionary psychology

The emerging discipline of evolutionary developmental biology has opened up many new lines of investigation into morphological evolution. Here I explore how two of the core theoretical concepts in ‘evo-devo’ – modularity and homology – apply to evolutionary psychology. I distinguish three sorts of module developmental, functional and mental modules and argue that mental modules need only be ‘vi...

Developing a Family-based Floor Time Therapy and Evaluation its Effectiveness on the Developmental Profile of Children with Interactive Disorders (Anxiety and Depression)

Background: Floor time therapy is the center of Greenspan developmental model. In Family-based of this model, to enhance the abilities of the child, family functioning is set the objective as a general unit, the purpose of this study was developing a Family-based Floor Time Therapyand evaluating its effectiveness on the developmental profile of children with interactive disorders. Materials an...

Why ontogenetic homology criteria can be misleading: lessons from digit identity transformations.

As the basis for comparative biology, correctly assigning character homology is critical. Yet, identifying homologous characters in practice is often challenging. Among the major roadblocks is that the mechanistic bases of character homology remain in question. Thus, investigators must rely on several independent lines of evidence (e.g., character anatomy, phylogenetic distribution, or embryolo...