ReviewEvolutionary anthropology2018
The tempo of human childhood: a maternal foot on the accelerator, a paternal foot on the brake.
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- Differential Expression of RNAseq Imprinted Genes from Bovine Females Before and After Puberty.Biochemical genetics · 2023Article
- Let's Play at Digging : How Vigorous Is This Energetic Task for a Young Forager?Human nature (Hawthorne, N.Y.) · 2022Article
- Genetics and voice production in childhood and adolescence - a review.International journal of pediatrics & adolescent medicine · 2022Article
- Aberrant Notch Signaling Pathway as a Potential Mechanism of Central Precocious Puberty.International journal of molecular sciences · 2022Review
- Iconic Mathematics: Math Designed to Suit the Mind.Frontiers in psychology · 2022Review
- Do the diverse phenotypes of Prader-Willi syndrome reflect extremes of covariation in typical populations?Frontiers in genetics · 2022Article
- Gathering Is Not Only for Girls : No Influence of Energy Expenditure on the Onset of Sexual Division of Labor.Human nature (Hawthorne, N.Y.) · 2021Article
- Postpartum depression and mother-offspring conflict over maternal investment.Evolution, medicine, and public health · 2021Article
- Makorin RING finger protein 3 and central precocious puberty.Current opinion in endocrine and metabolic research · 2020Article
- GENETICS IN ENDOCRINOLOGY: Genetic etiologies of central precocious puberty and the role of imprinted genes.European journal of endocrinology · 2020Review
- The Intergenerational Impacts of Paternal Diet on DNA Methylation and Offspring Phenotypes in Sheep.Frontiers in genetics · 2020Article
- Response to vocal music in Angelman syndrome contrasts with Prader-Willi syndrome.Evolution and human behavior : official journal of the Human Behavior and Evolution Society · 2019Article
- Baby food and bedtime: Evidence for opposite phenotypes from different genetic and epigenetic alterations in Prader-Willi and Angelman syndromes.SAGE open medicine · 2019Review
- Why and How Imprinted Genes Drive Fetal Programming.Frontiers in endocrinology · 2019Article
- The tempo of human childhood: a maternal foot on the accelerator, a paternal foot on the brake.Evolutionary anthropology · 2018Review
- No Signs of Inclusive Fitness or Reciprocal Altruism in Advantageous Inequity Aversion.Evolutionary psychology : an international journal of evolutionary approaches to psychology and behaviorArticle
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Abstract
Relative to the life history of other great apes, that of humans is characterized by early weaning and short interbirth intervals (IBIs). We propose that in modern humans, birth until adrenarche, or the rise in adrenal androgens, developmentally corresponds to the period from birth until weaning in great apes and ancestral hominins. According to this hypothesis, humans achieved short IBIs by subdividing ancestral infancy into a nurseling phase, during which offspring fed at the breast, and a weanling phase, during which offspring fed specially prepared foods. Imprinted genes influence the timing of human weaning and adrenarche, with paternally expressed genes promoting delays in childhood maturation and maternally expressed genes promoting accelerated maturation. These observations suggest that the tempo of human development has been shaped by consequences for the fitness of kin, with faster development increasing maternal fitness at a cost to child fitness. The effects of imprinted genes suggest that the duration of the juvenile period (adrenarche until puberty) has also been shaped by evolutionary conflicts within the family.
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