Fetal programming: Adaptive life-history tactics or making the best of a bad start?

American Journal of Human Biology

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 22-33

  Jones, James Holland ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; AGE; BIOLOGICAL TRAIT; BODY SIZE; CONTROLLED STUDY; COPING BEHAVIOR; DEMOGRAPHY; FETOPLACENTAL UNIT; FETUS DEVELOPMENT; HUMAN; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; LIFE CYCLE; LIFE HISTORY; LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; ONTOGENY; PARENTAL BEHAVIOR; PARITY; POPULATION MODEL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCTION; REVIEW; SURVIVAL; THEORY; WEANING;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; BODY CONSTITUTION; BODY SIZE; FEMALE; FETAL DEVELOPMENT; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; MATERNAL-FETAL EXCHANGE; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; PHENOTYPE; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL EXPOSURE DELAYED EFFECTS; PRENATAL NUTRITION PHYSIOLOGY; RESEARCH; SELECTION (GENETICS);

EID: 13444263673     PISSN: 10420533     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ajhb.20099     Document Type: Review

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