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Developmental Programming, Evolution, and Animal Welfare: A Case for Evolutionary Veterinary Science
16 Dec 2021
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The conditions animals experience during the early developmental stages of their lives can have critical ongoing effects on their future health, welfare, and proper development. In this paper we draw on evolutionary theory to improve our understanding of the processes of developmental programming, particularly Predictive Adaptive Responses (PAR) that serve to match offspring phenotype with predicted future...
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