This accessible book explains how individuals develop through their relationships with others. Alan Fogel demonstrates that human development is driven by a social dynamic process called co-regulation-the creative interaction of individuals to achieve a common goal. He focuses on communication-between adults, between parents and children, among non-human animals, and even among cells and genes-to create an original model of human development.
Fogel explores the origins of communication, personal identity, and cultural participation and argues that from birth communication, self, and...