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Protecting axons in grandchildren
Trends in Genetics, 2023Prenatal exposure to environmental agents can influence the fitness of not only the fetus, but also subsequent generations. In a recent study, Wang et al. demonstrated that feeding ursolic acid (UA), a plant-derived compound, to Caenorhabditis elegans mothers during their reproductive period prevented neurodegeneration in not only their offspring, but ...
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A Theory of the Value of Grandchildren
Rationality and Society, 2008As innovations in medical technology extend average longevity, grandparents become increasingly present during the lives of their grandchildren. We propose a theory that seeks to explain differential investment in grandchildren. The theory relies on a fundamental assumption of uncertainty reduction to explain why grandparents in post-industrial ...
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Grandparents and grandchildren
International Journal of Evidence-Based Healthcare, 2010This paper analyses the literature available on the contribution of grandparents to society and the synergies that develop between grandparents and grandchildren, which are increasingly important to families and the individuals involved. The paper interrogates the need for those who are ageing to find goals in life that are life affirming and the way ...
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Capital & Class, 2015
Thomas Piketty Capital in the Twenty-First Century, Harvard University Press: Cambridge, MA, 2014; 685 PP: 9780674430006, 40 [euro] (hbk) In Economic Possibilities for our Grandchildren, published in 1930, J. M. Keynes looked forward to a time when, a century on, humankind would have nearly solved 'the economic problem', its members taking their eyes ...
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Thomas Piketty Capital in the Twenty-First Century, Harvard University Press: Cambridge, MA, 2014; 685 PP: 9780674430006, 40 [euro] (hbk) In Economic Possibilities for our Grandchildren, published in 1930, J. M. Keynes looked forward to a time when, a century on, humankind would have nearly solved 'the economic problem', its members taking their eyes ...
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Of Grandchildren and Grandparents
2005The smithian stagnation problem lies in the meaning we place on ‘full complement of riches’. Predicting the content of the ‘full complement of riches’ for future societies is notoriously difficult and probably impossible more than a few years, certainly decades, ahead. Each generation changes the definition of ‘riches’.
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Victoria's Children, Grandchildren, Great-Grandchildren
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