Jean Liedloff is an American author, best known for her 1975 book The Continuum Concept. Year 1975 ( MCMLXXV) was a Common year starting on Wednesday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. The continuum concept is an idea relating to Human development proposed by Jean Liedloff in her book The Continuum Concept. She was born in New York. New York ( is a state in the Mid-Atlantic and Northeastern regions of the United States and is the nation's third most populous As a teenager, she accomplished the Drew Seminary for Young Women and began studying at Cornell University, but began her expeditions before she could graduate. During a diamond hunting expedition to Venezuela, she came into contact with an indigenous people named the Yequana. Venezuela (ˌvɛnəˈzweɪlə) officially the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela (Spanish República Bolivariana de Venezuela) is a country on the The Ye'kuana, also called Yekuana Yecuana Dekuana Maquiritare Makiritare So'to or Maiongong are a Cariban -speaking tropical rain forest tribe who live in the Caura Over time, she became fascinated with the Yequana, and made a decision to return to Venezuela to live with them. She wrote her book The Continuum Concept in an attempt to document the Yequana way of life, in particular their style of child rearing. From 1968 to 1970, Liedloff was editor of The Ecologist. The Ecologist is a monthly British Magazine that broadly focuses on promoting an ecological agenda in its news stories opinion and debate