Early Environments, Developmental Plasticity and Chronic Degenerative Disease

Human Growth and Development

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 325-341

  Kuzawa, Christopher W ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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DOI: 10.1016/B978-0-12-383882-7.00012-X     Document Type: Chapter

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