Social adversity, particularly early in life, can cause lifelong damage to health; by now,
numerous studies examine this relationship in non-human species, producing some …

Several social dimensions including social integration, status, early-life adversity, and their
interactions across the life course can predict health, reproduction, and mortality in humans …

Social gradients in health and aging have been reported in studies across many human
populations, and-as the papers included in this special collection highlight–also occur …

Affective state encompasses emotional responses to our physiology and influences how we
perceive and respond within our environment. In affective disorders such as depression …

Exposure to adversity during early life is linked to lasting detrimental effects on evolutionary
fitness across many taxa. However, due to the challenges of collecting longitudinal data …

Interconnected, fundamental aging processes are central to many illnesses and diseases.
Cellular senescence is a mechanism that halts the cell cycle in response to harmful stimuli …

In humans, being more socially integrated is associated with better physical and mental
health and/or with lower mortality. This link between sociality and health may have ancient …

Individual-level assessments of wild animal health, vital rates, and foraging ecology are
critical for understanding population-wide impacts of exposure to stressors. Large whales …

Comments on an article by CA Shively et al.(see record 2023-98557-001). Shively et al,
review how social stress (low status) and poor diet (Western diet vs. Mediterranean diet) …

Characterizing individual differences in cognition is crucial for understanding the evolution
of cognition as well as to test the biological consequences of different cognitive traits. Here …