To what extent are human beings capable of changing their physical characteristics and
behavioural patterns over the course of their lives? This question has engaged scientists for …

Early life experiences can have profound and persistent effects on traits expressed
throughout the life course, with consequences for later life behavior, disease risk, and …

The effect of early experience is a long-standing concern in developmental psychology.
Gaining further insight into the nature of human plasticity is central to efforts to prevent …

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Since Darwin's time, the natural selection of adult features has been emphasized as the
dominant factor directing human evolution. In recent years, however, evolutionary scientists …

Interest in individual differences in animal behavioural plasticities has surged in recent
years, but research in this area has been hampered by semantic confusion as different …

The first comprehensive synthesis on development and evolution: it applies to all aspects of
development, at all levels of organization and in all organisms, taking advantage of modern …

How malleable is human nature? Can an individual really change in meaningful ways? Or,
are there immutable limits on the possibilities of human growth set in place by the genes and …

For more than two decades the concept of phenotypic plasticity has allowed researchers to
go beyond the nature-nurture dichotomy to gain deeper insights into how organisms are …

Phenotypic plasticity is defined as the property of organisms to produce distinct phenotypes
in response to environmental variation. While for more than a century, biologists have …