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The Theories Of Attachment The Evolution theory is based on the attachment that is biologically pre-programmed into children before birth. The theory is about what is encoded in the human genes and how it evolves and persists because it adapts to its social surroundings. John Bowlby's main interest was in the relationship between care giver and child, also that infants emit social releasers to which adults are biologically attuned. This including physical appearance, crying and smiling. He also had the idea that infants would show imprinting to their own mother. Bowlby's theory is the idea of a critical period in which the development of attachment must occur, he believed that if the attachment did not form before the infant was two and a half then it would not form. Later he changed his mind and called this the sensitive period where learning must take place at this stage he...

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