Impact of adversity on early life development demonstrated

Thursday, October 25, 2012 - 13:01 in Biology & Nature

It's time to end the nature versus nurture debate and embrace growing evidence that it's the interaction between biology and environment that influences human development. One study by evolutionary biologists using fruit flies showed that food deprivation and lack of adequate nutrition in early life had significant impact on adult behavior and quality of life.

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