Assignment Detail:- Influences on Lifespan development
Foundations of Development
Please read Chapter 3 of your prescribed textbook- In this chapter, you are introduced to the first age-related period of development: the prenatal stage- You will learn that from the moment of conception, the organism develops rapidly, moving through the stages of zygote, embryo and foetus- You will also learn various environmental influences can either harm or support prenatal development-
This reading outlines some of the recent perceptions of epigenetics, then offers a new definition that "serves as an antidote to the idea that we are hard-wired by our genes"-
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