Hormones and Human and Nonhuman Primate Growth

Hormone Research in Pædiatrics
Robin Miriam Bernstein

Abstract

The aim of this paper was to review information pertaining to the hormonal regulation of nonhuman primate growth, with specific focus on the growth hormone (GH)-insulin-like growth factor (IGF) axis and adrenal androgens. Hormones of the GH-IGF axis are consistently associated with measures of growth - linear, weight, or both - during the growth period; in adulthood, concentrations of IGF-I, IGF-binding protein-3, and GH-binding protein are not associated with any measures of size. Comparing patterns of dehydroepiandrosterone (DHEA) and DHEA sulfate (DHEAS) may be especially relevant for understanding whether the childhood stage of growth and development is unique to humans and perhaps other apes. Genetic, hormonal, and morphological data on adrenarche in other nonhuman primate species suggest that this endocrine transition is delayed in humans, chimpanzees, and possibly gorillas, while present very early in postnatal life in macaques. This suggests that although perhaps permitted by an extension of the pre-adolescent growth period, childhood builds upon existing developmental substrates rather than having been inserted de novo into an ancestral growth trajectory. Hormones can provide insight regarding the evolution of the huma...Continue Reading

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Apr 9, 2020·Frontiers in Endocrinology·Robin M BernsteinSophie E Moore
Jun 18, 2018·Human Nature : an Interdisciplinary Biosocial Perspective·Timothy S McHalePeter B Gray
Jun 10, 2021·Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America·Cassidy L McDermottAllyson P Mackey

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