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This book “The Origin of Life Patterns – In the Natural Inclusion of Space in Flux” written by Alan Rayner, inaugurates the new SpringerBriefs Books Series Psychology and Cultural Developmental Sciences. As the firstborn, this book has to accomplish the task of drawing the coordinates for our intellectual enterprise, outlining the theoretical basis and the methodological approach within which a vivid debate at the intersection of Cultural Psychology and other Developmental Sciences (biology, sociology, philosophy, anthropology, education etc.) will be promoted. The aim of the series is to provide fertile ground that integrates knowledge from many fields in a new synthesis of general science of Cultural Psychology that deals with the highest psychological functions of human beings (Valsiner, Marsico, Chaudhary, Sato & Dazzani, 2016). Much of contemporary developmental science has natural liaisons with cultural psychology. The Springer Briefs series creates a forum of scholarly interchanges for that interdisciplinary synthesis.