Early life events and their consequences for later disease: A life history and evolutionary perspective

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The developmental origins of health and disease (DOHaD) phenomenon is considered as a subset of the broader processes of developmental plasticity by which organisms adapt to their environment during their life course which helps in understanding of human biology from the perspective of influence of early life influences on later disease risk. This view of human disease offers new approaches to prevention, diagnosis and intervention.

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Variability in reproductive success viewed from a life-history perspective in Baboons

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A summary of how foraging environment, social status, and group size contribute to within-population variance in reproductive success for savannah baboons is presented. The extent to which savannah baboons change their foraging environments by shifting home ranges and seeking rich food sources and how low-ranking females, which disproportionately bear the costs of social life, may mitigate those costs is discussed.

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Prader-willi syndrome and the evolution of human childhood

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Prader-Willi syndrome (PWS) is caused by the absence of expression of genes that are normally expressed only when paternally derived and children with PWS will fail to express behaviors that have increased mothers' costs of child-rearing. The aspects of the PWS phenotype that affect appetite and feeding are focused.

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