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Developmental Origins of Adult Function and Health: Evolutionary Hypotheses

2009-06-19

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Many biological systems have critical periods that overlap with the age of maternal provisioning via placenta or lactation. As such, they serve as conduits for phenotypic information transfer between generations and link maternal experience with offspring biology and disease outcomes. This review critically evaluates proposals for an adaptive function of these responses in humans. Although most models assume an ad...

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Literature Corpus work: b25cae0a-cb78-582e-883f-b22d300684e4
DOI: 10.1146/annurev-anthro-091908-164350

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