Field studies of natural mammal populations present powerful opportunities to investigate
the determinants of health and aging using fine-grained observations of known individuals …

Early life experiences have a significant influence on adult health and aging processes in
humans. Despite widespread interest in the evolutionary roots of this phenomenon, very little …

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 …

Social bonds enhance fitness in many group-living animals, generating interest in the
processes that create individual variation in sociality. Previous work on female baboons …

Plasticity is studied across the social and biological sciences, but communication between
disciplines is hindered by differences in the concepts used to do so. For instance, the …

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