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SUMMARY:The role of maternal care in mediating offspring behavioural devel
 opment - James Curley\, Darwin
DTSTART:20051020T114500Z
DTEND:20051020T130000Z
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CONTACT:selvino
DESCRIPTION:In mammals the quality of maternal care received by infants ca
 n have a profound influence upon how they behave when adults. Much empiric
 al work has focused on deteriorations in the quality of this intimate rela
 tionship\, detailing how offspring behave when things go wrong. However\, 
 following close observations it is possible to study natural variation in 
 maternal behaviour and how subtle differences impact upon the behavioural 
 development of infants. I shall discuss recent work that has investigated 
 this in rodents. Furthermore\, I shall propose that through epigenetic mec
 hanisms\, the quality of this mother-infant relationship may not only have
  consequences for how an individual behaves when adult\, but may also have
  an impact on the behaviour of future generations.
LOCATION:Entertaining Room\, Darwin College
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