Low Maternal Capital Predicts Life History Trade-Offs in Daughters: Why Adverse Outcomes Cluster in Individuals

Frontiers in Public Health

Volumn 7, Issue , 2019, Pages

  Wells, Jonathan C K ^a   Cole, Tim J ^a   Cortina Borja, Mario ^a   Sear, Rebecca ^b   Leon, David A ^b,c   Marphatia, Akanksha A ^d   Murray, Joseph ^e   Wehrmeister, Fernando C ^e   Oliveira, Paula D ^e   Gonçalves, Helen ^e   Oliveira, Isabel O ^e   Menezes, Ana Maria B ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TROMSØ   (Norway)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^e FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF PELOTAS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

education; growth; inter generational effect; life history theory; maternal investment; obesity; reproduction; trade offs

Indexed keywords

EID: 85072734760     PISSN: None     EISSN: 22962565     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpubh.2019.00206     Document Type: Article

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