This book address fundamental questions of human development, revisiting old questions and applying original empirical findings.

List of contributors; Preface; 1. Developmental processes, levels of analysis, and ways of knowing: new perspectives on human development Nancy Budwig, Elliot Turiel and Philip David Zelazo; Part I. Cognitive Development: 2. Constructive artificial neural-network models for cognitive development Thomas R. Shultz; 3. Rethinking the emergence and development of racial bias: a perceptual to social hypothesis Kang Lee, Paul C. Quinn and Gail Heyman; 4. The differentiation of executive function over development: insights from developmental cognitive neuroscience Nicole Bardikoff and Mark Sabbagh; 5. Organismic causal models 'from within' clarify developmental change and stages Juan Pascual-Leone and Janice Johnson; 6. Developmental evolution: rethinking stability and variation in biological systems Robert Lickliter; 7. NOC NOC, who's there? A new ontological category (NOC) for social robots Peter H. Kahn, Jr and Solace Shen; 8. Understanding the ecologies of human learning and the challenge for education science Carol D. Lee; Part II. Social Development: 9. Privilege and critical race perspectives' intersectional contributions to a systems theory of human development Margaret Beale Spencer; 10. Cultural neuroscience of the developing brain in adolescence Joan Chiao; 11. A domains-of-socialization perspective on children's social development Joan Grusec; 12. Gender development: a constructivist-ecological perspective Lynn S. Liben; 13. Racialized learning ecologies: understanding race as a key feature of learning and developmental processes in school Maxine McKinney de Royston and Na'ilah Nasir; 14. Social intelligence in a multicultural world: what is it? Who needs it? How does it develop? Richard Shweder; 15. Development in the moral domain: coordination and the need to consider other domains of social reasoning Elliot Turiel and Matthew Gingo; 16. Resistance to dehumanization: a developmental process Niobe Way and Leoandra Onnie Rogers; 17. Mother-child conversations about children's moral wrongdoing: a constructivist perspective on moral socialization Cecilia Wainryb and Holly Recchia; Part III. Language and Communicative Development: 18. The evolution of linguistic communication: Piagetian insights Eva Jablonka; 19. Scaffolding cognitive novelties in early childhood: intuitive psychology as mind designer Radu Bogdan; 20. Embrace complexity! Multiple factors contributing to cognitive, social and communicative development Annette Karmiloff-Smith; 21. The cultural basis of language and thought in development Katherine Nelson; 22. Children's co-construction of sentence and discourse structures in early childhood: implications for development Amy Kyratzis; 23. Developing with diversity into the third decade of life and beyond Colette Daiute.