Adipose tissue in human infancy and chil
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Kuzawa, Christopher W.
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Article
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1998
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John Wiley and Sons
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English
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Humans diverge from most mammals, including nonhuman primates, by depositing significant quantities of body fat in utero and are consequently one of the fattest species on record at birth. While explanations for the fat layer of human neonates have commonly assumed that it serves as insulation to co