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The Maternal Capital Hypothesis: Giving Mothers Central Place in Evolutionary Perspectives on Developmental Plasticity and Health.

American journal of human biology : the official journal of the Human Biology Council - 1 Jun 2025

Wells Jonathan C K

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The "developmental origins of health and disease" paradigm has revolutionized biomedical research and raised new questions in the public domain. Not only individual disease risk, but also population health inequalities, may be profoundly shaped by experience early in life. The maternal capital hypothesis, published in 2010, is an evolutionary conceptual framework for understanding developmental plasticity on an...

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PMID: 40536109
DOI: 10.1002/ajhb.70084
PMCID: PMC12177910

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