The theory of developmental programming suggests that diseases such as the metabolic
syndrome may be 'programmed'by exposure to adverse stimuli during early development …

Corporate executives managing some of the largest public companies in the US are shaped
by their daughters. When a firm's chief executive officer (CEO) has a daughter, the corporate …

A reliable, easy to assess marker for fertility in agricultural species would be highly desirable
and Anti-Müllerian Hormone (AMH) is a promising candidate. This review summarizes …

Background and objectives: Multidrug resistant (MDR) bacteria are a growing threat to
global health. Studies focusing on single antibiotics have shown that drug resistance is often …

An overview of the field of evolutionary consumption is provided. Brief summaries of
disciplines within the evolutionary behavioral sciences that preceded evolutionary …

Sex ratio adjustment has become a hot topic in ecology and evolutionary biology, as
documentations of sex ratio skews are numerous, and include examples in diverse animal …

The Trivers–Willard hypothesis has commonly been considered to predict two things. First,
that a mother in good condition should bias the sex ratio of her offspring towards males (if …

From the parental perspective, each individual's overall reproductive effort is a combination
of mating effort and parental effort or investment. There are numerous factors that can have …

The ratio of males to females among an individual's offspring at birth (offspring sex ratio) has
long been of great interest to evolutionary biologists. The human offspring sex ratio is …

This study tests two evolutionary hypotheses on grandparental investments differentiated by
the child's sex: the paternity uncertainty hypothesis and the Trivers–Willard hypothesis. Data …