INDICE: CONTENTS I. Introduction a. Evolutionary thinking in medicine b. Evo-Devo c. Life history theory d. Evolutionary perspective in child growth and maturation e. Child growth and the environment f. Heterochrony and allometry g. Adaptive plasticity in life-history II. Child growth and the theory of life history a. Life-history stages b. Transitions between life-history stages c. Developmental plasticity and adaptation d. Cultural adaptation to the environment e. Adaptive plasticity of attachment behaviors f. Note by George Chrousos on stress in early life: a developmental and evolutionary perspective 1. Stressconcepts 2. Stress mechanisms 3. Pathological effects of stress f. Note by Stefan Borenstein and Andreas Androutsellis-Theotokis on endogenous stem cells as components of plasticity and adaptation 1. The adult mammalian brain: Plastic or rigid? 2. Hidden plasticity potential in the brain 3. Neurogenic cell vs.neural stem cell 4. Does the role of neural stem cells change from the developing age to the adult? 5. The disconnect between neurogenesis and the presenceof neural stem cells 6. Fetal vs. adult neural stem cells 7. Signal transduction of stem cell regulation 8. Beyond the nervous system 9. Conclusions III. Fetal growth a. Endocrine and metabolic control of fetal growthb. The role of the placenta c. Developmental origins of health and adult disease (DOHaD) d. Imprinted genes and intrauterine growth e. Note by Alan Templeton on the evolutionary connection between senescence and childhood growth and development 1. Anevolutionary theory of aging 2. Thrifty genotypes and antagonistic pleiotropy3. Thrifty genotypes and heart disease 4. Why we grow old: the answer IV. Infancy a. The reproductive dilemma b. The obstetrical dilemma c. Growth of the infant d. Endocrine aspects of infantile growth e. Infancy - childhood transition: determination of adult stature f. Weaning from breast-feeding V. Childhood146a. The weanling's dilemma b. The grandmother theory c. Growth of the childd. Endocrine aspects of childhood growth VI. Juvenility a. The social/cognitive definition of juvenility b. Paleo-anthropological juvenility and teeth eruption c. Adrenarche d. Juvenile body composition e. Growth of the juvenile f. Trade-offs for the timing of transition to juvenility g. Precocious juvenility h. The Pygmy paradigm for precocious juvenility i. Evolutionary perspective inprecocious juvenility VII. Adolescence a. Human evolution of adolescence b. Transition from juvenility to adolescence c. Pubertal growth VIII Preadulthood IX Evolutionary strategies for body size a. The little people of Flores b. Lessons from the great apes c. The Handicap theory d. Sexual dimorphism e. The role of sex steroids X Energy considerations a. Endocrine control of energy expenditure b. Weaning and growth in a malnourished environment XI. Stage transitions: trade-offs and adaptive phenotypic plasticity a. Trans-generational influences in life-stages transition b. Epigenetics
- ISBN: 978-1-118-02716-5
- Editorial: John Wiley & Sons
- Encuadernacion: Cartoné
- Páginas: 246
- Fecha Publicación: 06/01/2012
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés