The duration of human maturation has been underestimated; an additional 4–6-year pre-
adult period of “emerging adulthood,” should be included in models of human maturation. It …

Abstract The Developmental Origins of Health and Disease paradigm evaluates the
consequences of early life stress on health at later stages of life. Interacting with this …

Throughout their lives, women provide for their own and their children's and grandchildren's
needs and thus must minimize their risk of incurring physical harm. Alliances with individuals …

Despite substantial heritability in pubertal development, much variation remains to be
explained, leaving room for the influence of environmental factors to adjust its phenotypic …

Until recently, our understanding of the evolution of human growth and development derived
from studies of fossil juveniles that employed extant populations for both age determination …

Research on age-related changes in morphology, social behavior, and cognition suggests
that the development of bonobos (Pan paniscus) is delayed in comparison to chimpanzees …

“A meditation on the human condition in an age when the old aspire to be young” from the
author of Forests: The Shadow of Civilization (Children's Literature). How old are you? The …

Developmental plasticity facilitates energetically costly but potentially fitness‐enhancing
adjustments to phenotypic trajectories in response to environmental stressors, and thus may …

Sexual selection researchers have traditionally focused on adult sex differences; however,
the schedule and pattern of sex-specific ontogeny can provide insights unobtainable from an …

Objectives Studies of male and female long bone growth in past populations are limited and
usually constrained by the lack of personal identification. This article aimed to evaluate long …