Article
Fetal programming and fetal psychology
2010-01-01
Abstract excerpt
Abstract The introduction of the ‘fetal programming hypothesis’, first in epidemiology, subsequently in a broad range of disciplines concerned with developmental biology, has generated new interest in phenotypic plasticity, the mechanisms that govern it, and its place in evolutionary biology. A number of epidemiological studies link small size at birth, assumed to be a consequence of constrained prenatal energy av...
Topics
Open a Topic to create a Post that cites this publication.
Identifiers and source
- Literature Corpus work
- e1aa2039-1cd3-58ea-bfd9-ff1c636c8482
- DOI
- 10.1002/icd.649
