Selection in utero and population health: Theory and typology of research

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Public health researchers may assume, based on the fetal origins literature, that “scarring” of birth cohorts describes the population response to modern-day stressors. We contend, based on extensive literature concerned with selection in utero , that this assumption remains questionable. At least a third and likely many more of human conceptions fail to yield a live birth. Those that survive to birth, moreover,...

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