Differential susceptibility to the environment: Toward an understanding of sensitivity to developmental experiences and context
Science, like evolution, is often remarkably convergent in its generativity of new ideas and its
exploration of novel conceptual territory. Just as evolution has repeatedly converged upon
common phenotypic solutions to problems of survival and reproduction among species of
differing lineage (Morris, 2010), the history of scientific inquiry, and that of developmental
science in particular, has also been marked by concurrent and homologous discovery by a
sometimes striking simultaneity in its arrival at shared theoretical insights along paths of�…
exploration of novel conceptual territory. Just as evolution has repeatedly converged upon
common phenotypic solutions to problems of survival and reproduction among species of
differing lineage (Morris, 2010), the history of scientific inquiry, and that of developmental
science in particular, has also been marked by concurrent and homologous discovery by a
sometimes striking simultaneity in its arrival at shared theoretical insights along paths of�…
Science, like evolution, is often remarkably convergent in its generativity of new ideas and its exploration of novel conceptual territory. Just as evolution has repeatedly converged upon common phenotypic solutions to problems of survival and reproduction among species of differing lineage (Morris, 2010), the history of scientific inquiry, and that of developmental science in particular, has also been marked by concurrent and homologous discovery by a sometimes striking simultaneity in its arrival at shared theoretical insights along paths of differing origins and trajectories. Thus, it has been with the emergence of “differential susceptibility to the environment”: a construct—really, a shared solution to a set of compelling conceptual and empirical dilemmas—that forms the centerpiece of this Special Section of Development and
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