Treatise on Child Growth and Human Evolution
E-Book, Englisch, 240 Seiten, E-Book
ISBN: 978-1-118-15614-8
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)
Logically organized and clearly written, Evo-Devo of Child Growth:
* Sets a solid foundation of principles such as evolutionary thinking in medicine and child growth, life history theory, and heterochrony and allometry
* Examines the relationship between child growth and the theory of life history
* Applies evo-devo theory to fetal growth, infancy, childhood, juvenility, adolescence, and preadulthood
* Explores the trade-offs and adaptive phenotypic plasticity during transition periods
* Explains the role of life history theory in understanding and diagnosing growth disorders such as Down syndrome, Noonan syndrome, and Silver-Russell syndrome
In addition to the author's own analysis and observations, this book also features notes from leading clinicians and evolutionary biologists, offering additional perspectives on the relationship between evo-devo and child growth and development.
Evo-Devo of Child Growth provides a new perspective for evolutionary biologists to understand the phases and transitions of child growth. Moreover, it offers a new approach to help clinicians to better understand and diagnose a broad range of child growth disorders.