Evo-devo of child growth [[electronic resource] ] : treatise on child growth and human evolution / / Zeev Hochberg

• Autore: Hochberg Z
• Pubblicazione: Hoboken, : Wiley-Blackwell, c2012
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (249 p.)
• Disciplina: 618.92
• Soggetto topico: Child development; Children - Growth; Human evolution
• Classificazione: SCI027000
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: EVO-DEVO OF CHILD GROWTH: Treatise on Child Growth and Human Evolution; CONTENTS; PREFACE; 1: INTRODUCTION; A. EVOLUTIONARY THINKING IN MEDICINE; B. EVO-DEVO; C. LIFE-HISTORY THEORY; D. EVOLUTIONARY PERSPECTIVE IN CHILD GROWTH AND MATURATION; E. CHILD GROWTH AND THE ENVIRONMENT; F. HETEROCHRONY AND ALLOMETRY; G. ADAPTIVE PLASTICITY IN LIFE HISTORY; 2: CHILD GROWTH AND THE THEORY OF LIFE HISTORY; A. LIFE-HISTORY STAGES; B. TRANSITIONS BETWEEN LIFE-HISTORY STAGES; C. DEVELOPMENTAL PLASTICITY AND ADAPTATION; D. CULTURAL ADAPTATION TO THE ENVIRONMENT ; E. ADAPTIVE PLASTICITY OF ATTACHMENT BEHAVIORSF. NOTE BY GEORGE CHROUSOS ON STRESS IN EARLY LIFE: A DEVELOPMENTAL AND EVOLUTIONARY PERSPECTIVE; 1. Stress Concepts; 2. Stress Mechanisms; 3. Pathological Effects of Stress; G. NOTE BY STEFAN BORNSTEIN AND ANDREAS ANDROUTSELLIS-THEOTOKIS ON ENDOGENOUS STEM CELLS AS COMPONENTS OF PLASTICITY AND ADAPTATION; 1. The Adult Mammalian Brain: Plastic or Rigid?; 2. Hidden Plasticity Potential in the Brain; 3. Neurogenic Cell vs. Neural Stem Cell; 4. Does the Role of Neural Stem Cells Change from the Developing Age to the Adult? ; 5. The Disconnect Between Neurogenesis and the Presence of Neural Stem Cells6. Fetal vs. Adult Neural Stem Cells; 7. Signal Transduction of Stem Cell Regulation; 8. Beyond the Nervous System; 9. Conclusions; 3: FETAL GROWTH; A. ENDOCRINE AND METABOLIC CONTROL OF FETAL GROWTH; B. THE ROLE OF THE PLACENTA; C. DEVELOPMENTAL ORIGINS OF HEALTH AND ADULT DISEASE (DOHAD); D. IMPRINTED GENES AND INTRAUTERINE GROWTH; E. NOTE BY ALAN TEMPLETON ON THE EVOLUTIONARY CONNECTION BETWEEN SENESCENCE AND CHILDHOOD GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT; 1. An Evolutionary Theory of Aging ; 2. Thrifty Genotypes and Antagonistic Pleiotropy3. Thrifty Genotypes and Heart Disease; 4. Why We Grow Old: The Answer; 4: INFANCY; A. THE REPRODUCTIVE DILEMMA; B. THE OBSTETRICAL DILEMMA; C. GROWTH OF THE INFANT; D. ENDOCRINE ASPECTS OF INFANTILE GROWTH; E. INFANCY-CHILDHOOD TRANSITION: DETERMINATION OF ADULT STATURE; F. WEANING FROM BREAST-FEEDING; 5: CHILDHOOD; A. THE WEANLING'S DILEMMA; B. THE GRANDMOTHER THEORY; C. GROWTH OF THE CHILD; D. ENDOCRINE ASPECTS OF CHILDHOOD GROWTH; 6: JUVENILITY; A. THE SOCIAL/COGNITIVE DEFINITION OF JUVENILITY ; B. PALEOANTHROPOLOGICAL JUVENILITY AND TEETH ERUPTIONC. ADRENARCHE; D. JUVENILE BODY COMPOSITION; E. GROWTH OF THE JUVENILE; F. TRADE-OFFS FOR THE TIMING OF TRANSITION TO JUVENILITY; G. PRECOCIOUS JUVENILITY; H. THE PYGMY PARADIGM FOR PRECOCIOUS JUVENILITY; I. EVOLUTIONARY PERSPECTIVE IN PRECOCIOUS JUVENILITY; 7: ADOLESCENCE; A. HUMAN EVOLUTION OF ADOLESCENCE; B. TRANSITION FROM JUVENILITY TO ADOLESCENCE; C. PUBERTAL GROWTH; 8: YOUTH; 9: EVOLUTIONARY STRATEGIES FOR BODY SIZE; A. THE LITTLE PEOPLE OF FLORES; B. LESSONS FROM THE GREAT APES; C. THE HANDICAP THEORY; D. SEXUAL DIMORPHISM ; E. THE ROLE OF SEX STEROIDS
• Sommario/riassunto: Working with principles from the fields of evolutionary and developmental biology (evo-devo), this fascinating work offers a new approach to analyzing child growth and development, examining each stage and transition in detail, from fetal development to preadulthood. Based on the author's in-depth review of the current literature and his own observations as a pediatric endocrinologist, the book demonstrates how the transitions between human life history phases represent unique periods of evolutionary adaptive response to the environment. In addition, the author explains why an understanding
• Titolo autorizzato: Evo-devo of child growth
• ISBN: 1-283-33241-8; 9786613332417; 1-118-15615-3; 1-118-15614-5; 1-118-15612-9
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910139551103321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II