Beyond its inherent importance to normal biology, the study of sex differences can provide a novel perspective: a parallax view of the particular disease of interest. Moreover, it has the potential to uncover hidden elements of pathobiology. In order for sex to affect disease phenotype, it must...
Theory predicts individuals will be more risk prone when their life expectancy is short, and adverse environmental conditions during development shorten life span. We modified developmental conditions of zebra finches, Taeniopygia castanotis, by manipulating parental foraging conditions to be either ‘harsh...
What do you find more valuable: an increased life expectancy or an increase in quality of life? Why? Why is the Hawthorne effect significant? Why is Gordon Allport important? Why was Elizabeth Loftus's research significant? Why is the Hawthorne effect important?
Theory predicts that the plastic expression of sex-traits should be modulated not only by their production costs but also by the benefits derived from the presence of rivals and mates, yet there is a paucity of evidence for an adaptive response of sex-trait expression to social environment. We...
For instance, the relative timing of bone ossification differs across populations of finches (Badyaev et al., 2008) and species of mammals (Smith, 2006). Second, we assume that the growth rates are constant across species for a given developmental window. However, we know that growth rates ...