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...Most of the milestones of maturation are biological," Kagan said. "In the opening year, the growth of the human brain does constrain and modulate when language appears, when guilt appears, and when major emotions appear...
...Kagan's books have made the bestseller lists, owing to his status as a popularizer of contemporary child psychology...
...Kagan's work has emphasized the importance of recognizing the unique biology of children, which contributes in unusual ways to their development and maturation...
Eschewing relativists in his own field, Kagan now believes that fundamental notions of right and wrong are suggested to us by our biology, so, at an early age, children can benefit from instruction in ethics...
...Kagan found biological differences in extremely shy children, leading his team of scientists to develop a theory about why children are unusually...