Modeling developmental plasticity in human growth: Buffering the past or predicting the future?

The Arc of Life: Evolution and Health Across the Life Course

Volumn , Issue , 2017, Pages 21-39

  Wells, Jonathan C K ^a   Johnstone, Rufus A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Adaptation; Developmental plasticity; Growth; Human ecology

Indexed keywords

EID: 85028852172     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4939-4038-7_3     Document Type: Chapter

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