Why Youth Is Not Wasted on the Young : Immaturity in Human Development, Hardcover by Bjorklund, David F., ISBN 1405149515, ISBN-13 9781405149518, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US Examining the long period of physical, social, and intellectual immaturity that humans go through on the way to adulthood, Bjorklund (psychology, Florida Atlantic U.) proposes that though maturity is the desired end state, some aspects of immaturity may be adaptive, or may have been for human ancestors. Contemporary society may be rushing children through childhood for its own purposes, he suggests, and proposes a different approach drawing on evolutionary theory. Annotation ©2007 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR ()