Currently, children are developing in an obesity‐promoting, or obesogenic, environment, which has emerged within the past 3 decades. This rapid change provides a rare …
T Day, R Bonduriansky - The American Naturalist, 2011 - journals.uchicago.edu
Inheritance—the influence of ancestors on the phenotypes of their descendants—translates natural selection into evolutionary change. For the past century, inheritance has been …
Learning: Principles and Applications by Stephen B. Klein provides students a current, comprehensive, and engaging introduction to the psychology of learning. Praised for its …
The palatable, energy‐dense foods that characterize modern environments can promote unhealthy eating habits, along with humans' predispositions to accept sweet tastes and …
Cannabinoid receptor agonists are known to stimulate feeding in humans and animals and this effect is thought to be related to an increase in food palatability. On the other hand …
A wide range of maternal exposures—undernutrition, obesity, diabetes, stress and infection— are associated with an increased risk of metabolic disease in offspring. Developmental …
KP Myers, A Sclafani - … : The Journal of the International Society …, 2006 - Wiley Online Library
Rats, like humans, are born with only a few innate flavor preferences and aversions. Preferences retain great plasticity throughout the lifespan because they are sensitive to …
We investigated which mechanisms of learning about foraging from the mother are important in piglets, Sus scrofa. The first experiment compared observation of the sow versus …
J Figueroa, D Solà-Oriol, X Manteca… - Applied Animal Behaviour …, 2013 - Elsevier
Social interactions facilitate animals learning of new features of their environment minimizing a trial and error process. It has been observed in some species that food cues …