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Behaviors, traits and characteristics are transmitted from parents to offspring because of
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In this paper I first offer a systematic outline of a series of conceptual novelties in the life-
sciences that have favoured, over the last three decades, the emergence of a more social …

Child conduct problems (CPs) are a robust predictor of adult mental health; the concurrence
of callous–unemotional (CU) traits confers specific risk for psychopathy. Psychopathy may …

Exposure to hostile conditions results in a series of coordinated responses aimed at
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In this article, we contrast evolutionary and psychobiological models of individual
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Epigenetic mechanisms, which control chromatin structure and function, mediate changes in
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In animal models, prenatal and postnatal stress is associated with elevated hypothalamic–
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