Behavioural and cognitive effects of an adverse early social environment: towards a better understanding of the adaptive significance and transgenerational transmission. University of Antwerp
National Museum of Natural Sciences, Ghent University, Behavioural Ecology & Ecophysiology
Early-life is one of the most critical periods for behavioural and cognitive development. An unfavourable early life environment with inadequate nourishment, deprived of social interactions and parental neglect/abuse may hence result in profound cognitive and behavioural deficiencies. How these effects can be interpreted in a framework of adaptive responses and how natural selection structures developmental effects arising from early life ...