ĐỀ SỐ 13EVOLUTION AND CHILDRENIf we are asked to envisage an archetypal human 1. ________, the picture that comes into our minds may be male or female. It may be black, white or yellow, but it will almost certainly be an adult. We take it for granted that 2. ________ is the meaningful part of our existence, and everything prior to it is merely preparation. The old adage quoted by Samuel Butler is often 3. ________ but has not yet been fully assimilated: "A hen is an egg's way of making another 4. ________." It is very difficultfor any of us to think of 5. ________ as a baby's way of making another baby.So there is a tendency in discussions about human evolution to overlook the fact that at every step of the journey there were not only males and females, but also babies, infants and children, and 6. ________ selection would never have favored one age group at too great a cost to 7. ________ of the others. 8. ________ children as smaller, imperfect copies of ourselves, we explain much of their behavior in the way we explain the rough-and-tumble play of cubs and kittens,calling it "preparation for adult life" or "developing the skills that they will later need."That is strange because it is one of the inviolable tenets of evolutionary theory that what an animal is or 9. ________ is governed by events that have happened, 10. ________events that are going to happen. Only in describing the young is it acceptable to believe that a mammal's behaviour is governed by the future that awaits it, rather than the history that lies behind it.

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