{"id":7707,"date":"2019-05-22T15:59:46","date_gmt":"2019-05-22T15:59:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/developmental_hypothesis\/"},"modified":"2019-05-22T15:59:46","modified_gmt":"2019-05-22T15:59:46","slug":"developmental_hypothesis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/developmental_hypothesis\/","title":{"rendered":"Developmental hypothesis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Put forward by <a href=\"http:\/\/www2.truman.edu\/~rgraber\/cultev\/spencer.html\" target=\"_self\" data-editable-link=\"http:\/\/www2.truman.edu\/~rgraber\/cultev\/spencer.html&amp;target=_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Herbert Spencer<\/a> (1820-1903) in 1852 as all-encompassing idea for change that could be applied to any organic phenomenon (across both developmental and evolutionary time), and praised by <a href=\"http:\/\/aleph0.clarku.edu\/huxley\/\" target=\"_self\" data-editable-link=\"http:\/\/aleph0.clarku.edu\/huxley\/&amp;target=_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Thomas H. Huxley<\/a> (1825-1895), Darwin&#8217;s &#8216;bulldog&#8217; as something of a breakthrough in evolutionary theory. &nbsp;It was part of Spencer&#8217;s own attempt at formulating an evolutionary theory that contained the notion of progression, as well as his belief in the inheritance of acquired characteristics.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>See <a href=\"darwinism\">Darwinism<\/a>, <a href=\"development\">Development<\/a>, <a href=\"developmental_-or_ontogenetic-_time\">Developmental (or ontogenetic) time<\/a>, Larmarckism, <a href=\"ontogenetic_development\">Ontogenetic development<\/a>, Progress   <\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><\/body><\/html><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Put forward by Herbert Spencer (1820-1903) in 1852 as all-encompassing idea for change that could be applied to any organic phenomenon (across both developmental and evolutionary time), and praised by Thomas H. Huxley (1825-1895), Darwin&#8217;s &#8216;bulldog&#8217; as something of a breakthrough in evolutionary theory. &nbsp;It was part of Spencer&#8217;s own attempt at formulating an evolutionary &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/developmental_hypothesis\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Developmental hypothesis&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2],"class_list":["post-7707","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-glossary","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7707","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7707"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7707\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}