Under the silver spoon hypothesis, individuals experiencing a better early-life environment have higher lifetime fitness than those from worse early-life environments, a pattern found widely across taxa including humans.
Evidence
Long-term fitness effects of the early-life environment in a wild bird population (Proceedings of the Royal Society B (PMC))
Categorization
- XREF: connects to: The decisive psychological traumatism of the colonial child occurs in grammar school — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 573; Early survival advantages compound into huge adult differences in weapon resources — Emlen, Douglas J, Animal Weapons_ The Evolution of Battle, 334; Black Americans’ biological aging accelerates faster from accumulated stress exposure — , The Rod and the Child: A Global History…, 7133
Broader Connections
- Black Americans’ biological aging accelerates faster from accumulated stress exposure
#exemplifies(0.85) — , The Rod and the Child, 7133 - Early survival advantages compound into huge adult differences in weapon resources
#expands(0.75) — Emlen, Douglas J, Animal Weapons_ The Evolution of Battle, 334