Evolutionary perspectives on the fetal origins hypothesis
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 19458331 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Peter M Elias (0000-0002-0069-9064, Harvard University Press, corresponding author), Peter T Ellison |
| Year | 2005 |
| Volume | 17 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 113-118 |
| Publication date | 2005-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | American Journal of Human Biology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1042-0533 • E-ISSN: 1520-6300 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1002/ajhb.20097 |
| PMID | 15612045 |
| OpenAlex | W2129387089 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 23 |
| References cited | 4 |
The fetal origins hypothesis, or Barker hypothesis, is both stimulating and challenging for evolutionary human biologists. While evidence of a correlation between conditions around the time of birth and later health outcomes has been presented before, the more recent evidence of a connection between fetal growth and chronic disease risk later in life has attracted considerable attention among epidemiologists and human biologists. Several themes that are fundamental to human biology emerge from an engagement with the fetal origins hypothesis. Among them are the tension between concepts of pathology, constraint, and adaptation; the importance of a life history perspective that embraces the notion of trade-offs; the question of environmental predictability; and the mechanisms of energy mobilization and allocation. Bringing the insights of evolutionary biology to bear on the fetal origins hypothesis illustrates the value of the field now known as evolutionary medicine
Biology · Disease · Environmental ethics · Epistemology · Evolutionary biology · Fetal growth · Fetus · Hum · Human biology · Human evolution · Pathology · Predictability · Pregnancy · Birth, Development, and Health · Child Nutrition and Water Access · History · Medicine · Neuroscience · Philosophy · Pregnancy and preeclampsia studies · Genetics
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Mental health of extremely low birth weight survivors
The Barker hypothesis and obesity
High ponderal index at birth predicts high estradiol levels in adult women
Adverse environments
Educated mothers, healthy infants. The impact of a school reform on the birth weight of Norwegian infants 1967–2005
Long-lasting consequences of being targeted
“Nobody Came Down”
Hour of birth and birth assistance
Is low digit ratio linked with late menarche? Evidence from the BBC internet study
Brains versus brawn
Reproductive development and parental investment during pregnancy
Early origins of health disparities
Developmental origins of adult disease
Low digit ratio (2D
Is there an elephant in the room? Addressing rival approaches to the interpretation of growth perturbations and small size
The evolutionary significance of human brown adipose tissue
Season of birth affects short‐ and long‐term survival
Bone morphologies and histories
The “early life” origins of obesity‐related health disorders
Mothers' level of education and infant health. Causal effects of the introduction of a school reform in Norway
Evolutionary Medicine
Life History and Real Life
| Unique citing works | 23 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,1 |
| Citation span | 2005 - 2025 (21) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 21 |