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Poverty places infants and young children at risk for adverse health and nutritional outcomes. However it does not explain why some children do well and others do not given similar macroenvironmental and socioeconomic conditions. This question motivated a cross-sectional study o…

This project investigates children, childhood and diet of two different Migration Period (4th-8th century AD) populations, the Gepids and the Avars, in the Great Hungarian Plain. The main goal was to assess whether there are differences in treatment of children and differences i…

For over 40 years, the sexual selection hypothesis of infanticide has sparked primatological interest in the evolutionary basis of this presumptively adaptive behavior. Infanticide by males has been largely accepted as a reproductive strategy in that when a new dominant sire kil…

BACKGROUND. Mothers with perceived insufficient milk supply (PIMS) are more likely to wean breastfeeding early and face many barriers throughout their breastfeeding journey compared to woman with adequate milk supply. Understanding how PIMS influences mothers' breastfeeding dura…