{
  "id": 10703709,
  "title": "Silver spoon effect: early-life environment and adult survival in a primate.",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/29/silver-spoon-effect-early-life-environment-and-adult-survival-in-a",
  "topic": "science",
  "section": "Science",
  "published": "2026-09-29T00:00:00.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "bioRxiv",
    "slug": "biorxiv",
    "url": "https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.09.23.753472v1?rss=1"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
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  "summary": "Early environmental conditions can have long-lasting effects on survival and reproductive fitness. Using a 23 year-long monitoring data set of captive mouse lemur's life history traits, we tested a relationship between maternal allocation to offspring (N = 1365) and their adulthood survival. Maternal characteristics such as age or body condition did not affect allocation to offspring whatever the…",
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  "coverage": {
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}