Events
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16 December 2004
Seminar Series 1 Lecture 2 - Prof Alistair Lawrence
Location: Glasgow
Prof Alistair Lawrence, Head of Animal Welfare, Scottish Agricultural College: ‘Animal Farm’
Key ideas:
- Animal modelling can be used to study the likely effects of changing environments on behaviour.
- Control and predictability are important factors that influence health outcomes.
- Obesity can be thought of as the result of the interaction between evolved controls and an artificial environment.
- Social behaviour has a genetic component.
- Stress causes cells to age faster and pre-natal stress may give rise to a general susceptibility to higher stress reactivity in offspring.