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Early life adversity and adult social relationships have independent effects on survival in a wild primate

Adverse conditions in early life can have negative consequences for adult health and survival in humans and other animals. What variables mediate the relationship between early adversity and adult survival? Adult social environments represent one candidate: Early life adversity is linked to social a...

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Autores principales: Lange, Elizabeth C., Zeng, Shuxi, Campos, Fernando A., Li, Fan, Tung, Jenny, Archie, Elizabeth A., Alberts, Susan C.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: American Association for the Advancement of Science 2023
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10191438/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37196090
http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.ade7172
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author Lange, Elizabeth C.
Zeng, Shuxi
Campos, Fernando A.
Li, Fan
Tung, Jenny
Archie, Elizabeth A.
Alberts, Susan C.
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Campos, Fernando A.
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description Adverse conditions in early life can have negative consequences for adult health and survival in humans and other animals. What variables mediate the relationship between early adversity and adult survival? Adult social environments represent one candidate: Early life adversity is linked to social adversity in adulthood, and social adversity in adulthood predicts survival outcomes. However, no study has prospectively linked early life adversity, adult social behavior, and adult survival to measure the extent to which adult social behavior mediates this relationship. We do so in a wild baboon population in Amboseli, Kenya. We find weak mediation and largely independent effects of early adversity and adult sociality on survival. Furthermore, strong social bonds and high social status in adulthood can buffer some negative effects of early adversity. These results support the idea that affiliative social behavior is subject to natural selection through its positive relationship with survival, and they highlight possible targets for intervention to improve human health and well-being.
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spelling pubmed-101914382023-05-18 Early life adversity and adult social relationships have independent effects on survival in a wild primate Lange, Elizabeth C. Zeng, Shuxi Campos, Fernando A. Li, Fan Tung, Jenny Archie, Elizabeth A. Alberts, Susan C. Sci Adv Earth, Environmental, Ecological, and Space Sciences Adverse conditions in early life can have negative consequences for adult health and survival in humans and other animals. What variables mediate the relationship between early adversity and adult survival? Adult social environments represent one candidate: Early life adversity is linked to social adversity in adulthood, and social adversity in adulthood predicts survival outcomes. However, no study has prospectively linked early life adversity, adult social behavior, and adult survival to measure the extent to which adult social behavior mediates this relationship. We do so in a wild baboon population in Amboseli, Kenya. We find weak mediation and largely independent effects of early adversity and adult sociality on survival. Furthermore, strong social bonds and high social status in adulthood can buffer some negative effects of early adversity. These results support the idea that affiliative social behavior is subject to natural selection through its positive relationship with survival, and they highlight possible targets for intervention to improve human health and well-being. American Association for the Advancement of Science 2023-05-17 /pmc/articles/PMC10191438/ /pubmed/37196090 http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.ade7172 Text en Copyright © 2023 The Authors, some rights reserved; exclusive licensee American Association for the Advancement of Science. No claim to original U.S. Government Works. Distributed under a Creative Commons Attribution NonCommercial License 4.0 (CC BY-NC). https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) , which permits use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, so long as the resultant use is not for commercial advantage and provided the original work is properly cited.
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Lange, Elizabeth C.
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Campos, Fernando A.
Li, Fan
Tung, Jenny
Archie, Elizabeth A.
Alberts, Susan C.
Early life adversity and adult social relationships have independent effects on survival in a wild primate
title Early life adversity and adult social relationships have independent effects on survival in a wild primate
title_full Early life adversity and adult social relationships have independent effects on survival in a wild primate
title_fullStr Early life adversity and adult social relationships have independent effects on survival in a wild primate
title_full_unstemmed Early life adversity and adult social relationships have independent effects on survival in a wild primate
title_short Early life adversity and adult social relationships have independent effects on survival in a wild primate
title_sort early life adversity and adult social relationships have independent effects on survival in a wild primate
topic Earth, Environmental, Ecological, and Space Sciences
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10191438/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37196090
http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.ade7172
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