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PhD biologist writing about science, nature, medicine and tech

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Tag Archives: child development

A baboon mom’s history of hardship has lasting effects on her kids

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A baboon mom’s history of hardship has lasting effects on her kids. Duke Today, September 24, 2019. Baboons reveal how childhood wounds faced by one generation can take a toll on the next, and how close relationships with parents or other sources of support might help break the cycle. Picked up by UPI.

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