At 8 weeks of age, Yovani seems unresponsive to a rattle and fails to track a toy moved in front of his face. In the next few months, he will demonstrate rapid increases in his ability to coordinate his responses to what he touches, sees, smells, tastes, and hears. To what can this rapid change in his abilities be attributed?

Early 18th century british industries were generally small scale and relatively unsophisticated. most textile production, for example, was centred on small workshops or in the homes of spinners, weavers and dyers: a literal ‘cottage industry’ that involved thousands of individual manufacturers. such small-scale production was also a feature of most other industries, with different regions specialising in different products: metal production in the midlands, for example, and coal mining in the north-east.two illustrations of 18t