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A general life history theory for effects of caloric restriction on health maintenance. [PDF]
BMC Syst Biol, 2011 Hou C, Bolt K, Bergman A.
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Married Too Young? The Behavioral Ecology of ‘Child Marriage’
Social Sciences, 2021 For girls and women, marriage under 18 years is commonplace in many low-income nations today and was culturally widespread historically. Global health campaigns refer to marriage below this threshold as ‘child marriage’ and increasingly aim for its ...
Susan B. Schaffnit, David W. Lawson
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Maternal capital predicts investment in infant growth and development through lactation
Frontiers in Nutrition, 2023 IntroductionMaternal capital (MC) is a broad term from evolutionary biology, referring to any aspects of maternal phenotype that represent resources available for investment in offspring.
Sarah Dib +2 more
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Frontiers in Psychology, 2023 BackgroundeHealth literacy—the ability to obtain, understand, evaluate, and use health information from the Internet—is important to maintaining and improving personal health.
Wenfei Feng +2 more
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Frontiers in Psychiatry, 2021 Self-disturbance is recognized as a key symptom of Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD). Although it is the source of significant distress and significant costs to society, it is still poorly specified.
Axel Baptista +9 more
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Can impulsivity evolve in response to childhood environmental harshness?
Evolutionary Human Sciences, 2022 Previous studies have suggested that human impulsivity is an adaptive response to childhood environmental harshness: individuals from families of low socioeconomic status (SES) tend to be more impulsive.
Atsushi Kometani, Yohsuke Ohtsubo
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The geometry of reaction norms yields insights on classical fitness functions for Great Lakes salmon. [PDF]
, 2020 Life history theory examines how characteristics of organisms, such as age and size at maturity, may vary through natural selection as evolutionary responses that optimize fitness.
Breck, James E +5 more
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Behavioral Sciences, 2022 We synthesized life history theory and the antagonistic pleiotropy hypothesis to form an integrative framework for understanding delay discounting (DD).
Junsong Lu, Qi’an Lu, Lin Lu
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Environmental conditions during early life accelerate the rate of senescence in a short-lived passerine bird [PDF]
, 2015 Environmental conditions experienced in early life may shape subsequent phenotypic traits including life history. We investigated how predation risk caused by domestic cats (Felis silvestris catus) and local breeding density affected patterns of ...
Balbontín Arenas, Javier +1 more
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“The Notion of Neutrality in Clinical Ethics Consultation”
Philosophy, Ethics, and Humanities in Medicine, 2018 Clinical ethics consultation (CEC), as an activity that may be provided by clinical ethics committees and consultants, is nowadays a well-established practice in North America.
Alessandra Gasparetto +2 more
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