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Reports of children abandoned by their parents and subsequently brought up by a wild animal, usually a wolf, have cropped up from time to time. Scientific interest has, of course, centred on the degree to which such children have retained their human characteristics when reared in an entirely nonhuman environment. Such unusual cases should help us to judge the extent to which human behaviour is learned in a social context.
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J. M. C. Itard, The Wild Boy of Aveyron (New York, 1932)
J. A. L. Singh and R. M. Zingg, Wolf Children and Feral Man (New York, 1940)
A. Gesell, Wolf Child and Human Child (New York, 1940).
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Ogburn, W.F., Bettelheim, B. (1970). Personality Development. In: Understanding Society. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-15392-3_7
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