How organisms capture and ultimately use metabolic energy–a limiting resource of life–has
profound implications for understanding evolutionary legacies and current patterns of …

Developmental plasticity facilitates energetically costly but potentially fitness‐enhancing
adjustments to phenotypic trajectories in response to environmental stressors, and thus may …

Developmental plasticity, the ability to regulate aspects of development in response to
environmental cues, is hypothesized to evolve in response to environmental heterogeneity …

The pathological anatomical collection Vienna (Pathologisch-Anatomische Sammlung Wien;
PASW) is a living and still growing research collection. It was established as early as 1796 …

Objective To develop the extreme gradient boosting (XG Boost) machine learning (ML)
model for predicting gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) compared with a model using the …

Objective Academic human biology seeks to characterize and explain human biocultural
variation in terms of adaptations to local environments. Understanding and educating about …

Objectives Linear enamel hypoplasia (LEH) is a common skeletal marker of physiological
stress (eg, malnutrition or illness) that is studied within and across populations, without …

Objective Deciduous dental crowns primarily develop during gestation and early infancy and
embody early life stress exposures. Composite measures of dental fluctuating asymmetry …

The Developmental Origins of Health and Disease (DOHaD) hypothesis evolved from earlier
research by Barker and colleagues in the 1980s, which demonstrated a link between early …

Playing during adolescence is hypothesized to prepare young people to respond to
unexpected future challenges. But, when extrinsic environmental risks are high, adolescents …