Silver spoon effects on plumage quality in a passerine bird by Piotr Minias, Radosław Włodarczyk, Adrian Surmacki, Tomasz Iciek

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THE MYTH OF THE SILVER SPOON : NAVIGATING FAMILY WEALTH & CREATING AN IMPACTFUL LIFE / by Keffeler, Kristin, author.

Silver spoons and black mobility: The white South African economic elite and its implications for the upward mobility of blacks by P. Human, Linda Human

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Seychelles warblers with silver spoons: Juvenile body mass is a lifelong predictor of annual survival, but not annual reproduction or senescence by Thomas J. Brown, Hannah L. Dugdale, Martijn Hammers, Jan Komdeur, David S. Richardson

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Childhood and adult socioeconomic position interact to predict health in mid life in a cohort of British women by Daniel Nettle, Melissa Bateson

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“Born with a silver spoon in the mouth has bad sides too”: Experimentally increasing growth rate enhances individual quality but accelerates reproductive senescence in females of the mealworm beetle, Tenebrio molitor by Agathe Crosland, Thierry Rigaud, Aude Balourdet, Yannick Moret

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Early life conditions influence fledging success and subsequent local recruitment rates in a declining migratory songbird, the Whinchat Saxicola rubetra by Chay Halliwell, Martin Ketcher, Amanda Proud, Stephen Westerberg, David J. T. Douglas, Malcolm D. Burgess

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A heart so big / by Hogarty, Rio, author

“…Rio Hogarty's story of her life in fostering, 'A Heart So Big', combines the heart-warming nostalgia of Mollie Moran's Aprons and Silver Spoons with heart-breaking stories of children whose lives were blighted by being unloved and uncared for in the style of Cathy Glass. …”

Un service de table en bronze et argent soigneusement rangé dans une cave à Reims/Durocortorum by Michaël Brunet, Fabienne Médard, Magalie Cavé, Stéphane Sindonino

“…With the exception of the four solid silver spoons, the rest are bronze dishes, either completely or partially coated with silver leaf, sometimes only the upper portion of the vessel. …”
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Plastic maternal effects of social density on reproduction and fitness in the least killifish, Heterandria formosa by Samantha T. Levell, Samuel A. Bedgood, Joseph Travis

“…This transgenerational plasticity is not anticipatory but might be considered adaptive in both populations if providing those “silver spoons” enhances offspring fitness in all environments.…”
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Thermal and nutritional environments during development exert different effects on adult reproductive success in Drosophila melanogaster by Kyeong Woon Min, Taehwan Jang, Kwang Pum Lee

“…The “environmental matching” hypothesis predicts that individuals perform best when adult and developmental environments match whereas the “silver spoon” hypothesis expects that fitness is higher in individuals developed under favorable environments regardless of adult environments. …”
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Differential effects of early- and late-life access to carotenoids on adult immune function and ornamentation in mallard ducks (Anas platyrhynchos). by Michael W Butler, Kevin J McGraw

“…In sum, we did not find consistent support for either the Environmental Matching or Silver Spoon hypotheses. We then describe a new hypothesis that should be tested in future studies examining developmental plasticity.…”
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Sex differences in the persistence of natal environmental effects on life histories. by Wilkin, T, Sheldon, B

“…"Silver spoon" effects of early environments on adult characteristics and life-history trajectories are thought to be widespread among vertebrates and are important because they imply that environments can have cascading transgenerational effects. …”

The influence of developmental diet on reproduction and metabolism in Drosophila by Peter Klepsatel, Diana Knoblochová, Thirnahalli Nagaraj Girish, Heinrich Dircksen, Martina Gáliková

“…Overall, these results are consistent with the silver spoon concept, which posits that development in a suboptimal environment negatively affects fitness-associated traits. …”
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