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Evolution of Infant and Young Child Feeding: Implications for Contemporary Public Health

25 Jun 2007

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Evolutionary anthropological and ethnographic studies are used to develop a general conceptual framework for understanding prehistoric, historic, and contemporary variation in human lactation and complementary feeding patterns. Comparison of similarities and differences in human and nonhuman primate lactation biology suggests humans have evolved an unusually flexible strategy for feeding young. Several lines of...

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PMID: 17666009
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.nutr.25.050304.092557

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