Publication Date
12-1-2012
Abstract
Prenatal energy balance and postnatal psychosocial experiences have been linked by separate literatures to maturational timing, adult body composition (e.g., height, skeletal muscle mass), and life-long differences in metabolic physiology. This dissertation examines the potential influences of prenatal energy balance and postnatal psychosocial experiences in simultaneous analyses designed to test whether they exert additive or interacting influences on adult body composition (chapters 2 and 4), metabolic physiology (chapter 3), and age at menarche (chapter 4) among samples of U.S. men and women. Evolutionary models that address human developmental plasticity are explored as possible explanations for the observed relationships.
Document Type
Dissertation
Language
English
Degree Name
Anthropology
Level of Degree
Doctoral
Department Name
Anthropology
First Committee Member (Chair)
Jack Baker, Co-Chair
Second Committee Member
Jane B. Lancaster, Co-Chair
Third Committee Member
Christine Mermier
Fourth Committee Member
Joe Alcock
Recommended Citation
Workman, Megan. "Early-life influences on body composition, metabolic economy, and age at menarche." (2012). https://digitalrepository.unm.edu/anth_etds/76
