Maternal investment, maturational rate of the offspring and mechanical competence of the adult female skeleton | Zendy

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Maternal investment, maturational rate of the offspring and mechanical competence of the adult female skeleton

Author(s) -

Alison Macintosh,

Jonathan C. K. Wells,

Jay T. Stock

Publication year - 2018

Publication title -

evolution medicine and public health

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 1.427

H-Index - 22

ISSN - 2050-6201

DOI - 10.1093/emph/eoy015

Subject(s) - menarche , offspring , demography , skeleton (computer programming) , sexual maturity , obesity , medicine , life history theory , physiology , endocrinology , biology , pregnancy , life history , anatomy , ecology , sociology , genetics

Girls with a slower life history trajectory build a larger body with larger and mechanically stronger bones. Thus, variation in the emergence of slower versus faster life history trajectories during development can have consequences for bone mechanical competence, and hence fracture risk in adulthood.

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