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Anthropometrics of Estonian children in relation to family disruption: Thrifty phenotype and Trivers–Willard effects

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: The thrifty phenotype hypothesis proposes that at resource limitation, the growth of some organs/tissues is selectively spared to preserve more critical ones, such as the brain or lungs. The Trivers–Willard hypothesis (TWH) predicts that boys are more vulnerable in the cas...

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Autores principales: Valge, Markus, Meitern, Richard, Hõrak, Peeter
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Oxford University Press 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8445393/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34540230
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/emph/eoab022