Effects Of Childhood Environment On Human Reproductive Efforts
Sunday, September 4, 2011 - 09:20
in Psychology & Sociology
Although we tend to overlook it, we humans are animals and, although we sometimes don't realize it, we act just like our wilder relatives. This was highlighted in a lecture at the 2011 Behavior meeting by Daniel Nettle of Newcastle University, who discussed how early-life environment affects reproductive strategies in human females. His research was inspired, in part, by previous work showing that female monkeys with more disrupted childhoods were later more interested in holding infants when given a choice between an infant and a model. In other words, these females seemed more primed to engage in reproductive behaviors than similar-aged monkeys who had experienced a normal childhood.read more
