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The lifespan course comes with the challenge of covering the growing mass of research findings within the confines of a single semester. Lifespan Development: Lives in Context integrates carefully selected current research findings with the classic theory and research that remains an important foundation for today’s most exciting scholarly work. I integrate cutting-edge and classic research to present a unified story of what is currently known in developmental science. For example, neuroscience and epigenetics are some of the most rapidly growing areas of developmental science research. These topics are reflected throughout the text and especially in the Brain and Biological Influences on Development feature, which examines topics such as pregnancy and the maternal brain, poverty and brain development, the effects of sleep on emotional regulation in young children and neurological functioning in adults, chronic traumatic encephalopathy in athletes, and whether age-related neurological changes increase older adults’ risk for maltreatment.