2021-06-16Zeitschriftenartikel
Early maternal loss leads to short- but not long-term effects on diurnal cortisol slopes in wild chimpanzees
Girard-Buttoz, Cédric; Tkaczynski, Patrick J.; Samuni, Liran; Fedurek, Pawel; Gomes, Cristina; Löhrich, Therese; Manin, Virgile; Preis, Anna; Valé, Prince F.; Deschner, Tobias; Wittig, Roman M.; Crockford, Catherine
The biological embedding model (BEM) suggests that fitness costs of maternal loss arise when early-life experience embeds long-term alterations to hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis activity. Alternatively, the ...
