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Centering human milk composition as normal human biological variation.

Elizabeth A Quinn
Published in: American journal of human biology : the official journal of the Human Biology Council (2021)
Biological anthropology is uniquely positioned to investigate biological variation in human milk, using evolutionary theory, cutting edge biology, and anthropologically informed perspectives that challenge the biomedical framing of lactation and often act to privilege well nourished, primarily western populations and formula feeding as normatives for infant feeding research.
Keyphrases
  • human milk
  • low birth weight
  • preterm infants
  • endothelial cells
  • preterm birth
  • south africa
  • genome wide
  • gene expression
  • pluripotent stem cells
  • genetic diversity