A study that questioned earlier findings
Environmental Effects on Motor Development: the Case of ‘African Infant Precocity’
Charles M. Super · 1976 · Developmental Medicine & Child Neurology
- Children
- About 60 babies
- Where
- Rural Kenya
- Ages
- First year
- How
- Researchers studied babies and their families closely
- What it found
- Babies sat and walked early by American standards, and these were the skills their carers taught and practised. They weren't ahead on skills that weren't practised.
- Limits
- We have only read the summary, which gives no ages.