Data from: Intergenerational effects of early adversity on survival in wild baboons

Early life adversity can affect an individual's health, survival, and
fertility for many years after the adverse experience. Whether early life
adversity also imposes intergenerational effects on the exposed
individual's offspring is not well understood. We fill this gap by
leveraging prospective, longitudinal data on a wild, long-lived primate.
We find that juveniles whose mothers experienced early life adversity
exhibit high mortality before age 4, independent of the juvenile's
own experience of early adversity. These juveniles often preceded their
mothers in death by 1 to 2 years, indicating that high adversity females
decline in their ability to raise offspring near the end of life. While we
cannot exclude direct effects of a parent's environment on offspring
quality (e.g., inherited epigenetic changes), our results are completely
consistent with a classic parental effect, in which the environment
experienced by a parent affects its future phenotype and therefor e its
offspring's phenotype.