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Sear, R. (Eds.). (2024). Human evolutionary demography. Open Book Publishers.https://scholarworks.iu.edu/dspace/items/3777a36c-41cf-4a57-a8ec-4c0cdf21f69b------------------------------Contact the Sausage of Science Podcast and the Human Biology Association:Facebook: facebook.com/groups/humanbiologyassociation/, Website: humbio.orgCara Ocobock, Co-Host, Website: sites.nd.edu/cara-ocobock/Email: cocobock@nd.edu, Twitter: @CaraOcobockAnna Samsonov, Co-Host, Email: anna_samsonov1@baylor.eduBluesky: @annasamsonov.bsky.social
In this episode, Chris and Mecca discuss the non-academic job search and career experience with Dr. Anneliese Long, as well as her work assessing the connections among inflammation and ovarian reserve biomarkers. Anneliese Long is an applied anthropologist with a background in studying the biological and sociocultural aspects of reproductive health and fertility. She completed her B.A. in anthropology at the University of South Florida, followed by her PhD in Biological Anthropology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 2025. She now works in the market research industry as a quantitative data analyst at OptiBrand Rx, where she helps bridge the gaps in knowledge between biotechnology and pharmaceutical organizations and healthcare practitioners. She also continues to teach and mentor students part-time in her home department at UNC-Chapel Hill. Contact Anneliese at anneliesemlong@gmail.com, https://www.linkedin.com/in/annelieselong/ ------------------------------Find the paper discussed in this episode:Inflammation and Ovarian Function in Reproductive-Aged Womenhttps://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ajhb.24196------------------------------Contact the Sausage of Science Podcast and the Human Biology Association:Facebook: facebook.com/groups/humanbiologyassociation/, Website: humbio.orgChris Lynn, Co-Host, Website: cdlynn.people.ua.edu/, E-mail: cdlynn@ua.eduMecca E. Howe, Co-Host, E-mail: howemecca@gmail.com, LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mecca-howe/
In this episode, host Chris speaks with Dr. Christine Webb about primate behavior, cognition and consciousness, and dismantling the myth of human exceptionalism. Dr. Christine Webb is an assistant professor in the department of Environmental Studies at NYU, where she is part of the animal studies program. Her work seeks to elucidate the complex dynamics of animal social life and to apply this knowledge to foundational questions in animal ethics and conservation. Specifically, she investigates how animals manage and mitigate social disruptions, and the emotional, motivational , and cultural influences shaping these processes, with a focus on non-human primates. Dr. Webb is interested in how prevailing social norms, values, and institutions shape contemporary knowledge of other animals and the environment more generally. In her new book, The Arrogant Ape, Dr. Webb engages critically with human exceptionalism, and how this pervasive ideology biases scientific exploration of the more-than-human world. ------------------------------Find the book discussed in this episode:Webb, C. E. (2025). The arrogant ape: the myth of human exceptionalism and why it matters. New York, NY: Avery.https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/717436/the-arrogant-ape-by-christine-webb/#------------------------------Contact Dr. Christine Webb: christinewebb@nyu.eduBluesky: @christinewebb.bsky.social/Website: https://www.cewebb.com/------------------------------Contact the Sausage of Science Podcast and the Human Biology Association:Facebook: facebook.com/groups/humanbiologyassociation/, Website: humbio.orgChris Lynn, Host Website: cdlynn.people.ua.edu/, E-mail: cdlynn@ua.edu, Twitter:@Chris_Ly
In this episode, hosts Chris and Mecca speak with Dr. Danny Longman and Dr. Colin Shaw about the mismatch between humans and modern built environments, exploring both the negative biological impacts of living in industrialized cities and the positive effects of spending time in nature. Dr Danny Longman graduated from the University of Cambridge with a BA (Hons) in Natural Sciences (2005–08), followed by an MPhil (2008–09) and PhD (2011–14) in Human Evolution. He remained at Cambridge as a Postdoctoral Researcher (2015–19) before joining Loughborough University as a Lecturer. He has since been promoted to Senior Lecturer. Outside of work, Danny is a keen sportsman with a passion for ultra-endurance sport, nature, and travel.Dr. Colin Shaw graduated from the University of Western Ontario (Canada) with a BA (Hons) in Anthropology and Kinesiology (2000) and an MSc in Exercise Physiology (2000-02), then moved to the University of Cambridge, where he obtained an MPhil (2003-04) and a PhD (2004–08) in Biological Anthropology. He was a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Wisconsin-Madison (2008-2009), Penn State (2010-2011), and the University of Cambridge (2011-2015). He is now a Senior Lecturer at the University of Zurich.------------------------------Find the paper discussed in this episode:Longman, D.P. and Shaw, C.N. (2026), Homo sapiens, industrialisation and the environmental mismatch hypothesis. Biol Rev, 101: 580-601. https://doi.org/10.1111/brv.70094 ------------------------------Contact the Sausage of Science Podcast and the Human Biology Association:Facebook: facebook.com/groups/humanbiologyassociation/, Website: humbio.orgChris Lynn, Co-Host, Website: cdlynn.people.ua.edu/, E-mail: cdlynn@ua.eduMecca E. Howe, Co-Host, E-mail: howemecca@gmail.com, LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mecca-howe/
Evolutionary Biology and Anthropology at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. His research examines variation and evolution through the skeletons of primates and other mammals, applying quantitative genetics and functional anatomy to understand how traits evolve, especially in primates and Australian marsupials. He also studies variation in global human samples from archaeological and medical contexts, as well as the history and ethics of the biological and social sciences. You can find more about his work here: https://web.utk.edu/~auerbach/index.htm ------------------------------Find the paper discussed in this episode:Who Speaks for the Dead? Of Communities and Stewardship in Legacy Collections of Human Remains: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ajpa.70216AABA Task Force on the Ethical Study of Human Remains Recommendations: Proposal for the Management and Oversight of Community Partnership and Ethical Stewardship of Human Remains: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ajpa.70213------------------------------Contact the Sausage of Science Podcast and the Human Biology Association:Facebook: facebook.com/groups/humanbiologyassociation/, Website: humbio.orgCara Ocobock, Co-Host, Website: sites.nd.edu/cara-ocobock/, Email:cocobock@nd.edu, Twitter:@CaraOcobockChris Lynn, Co-Host, Website: cdlynn.people.ua.edu/, E-mail: cdlynn@ua.edu, Twitter:@Chris_Ly
Keet, C. A. (2025). Temporal, Age, and Racial and Ethnic Trends in Allergen Consumption from 2-Day 24-Hour Recalls, NHANES 2003-2023. The journal of allergy and clinical immunology. In practice, 13(10), 2795–2805. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jaip.2025.07.028Comment on Stanislaw J. Gabryszewski, Jesse Dudley, Jennifer A. Faerber, Robert W. Grundmeier, Alexander G. Fiks, Jonathan M. Spergel, David A. Hill; Guidelines for Early Food Introduction and Patterns of Food Allergy. Pediatrics November 2025; 156 (5): e2024070516. 10.1542/peds.2024-070516 ------------------------------Contact the Sausage of Science Podcast and the Human Biology Association:Facebook: facebook.com/groups/humanbiologyassociation/, Website: humbio.orgMecca E. Howe, Host, E-mail: howemecca@gmail.com, LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mecca-howe/
In this episode, Dr. Catalina Fernández explains a new theoretical model of human growth and its opportunities for cross-sectional and diverse samples. Dr. Catalina Fernández is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Anthropology at Florida Atlantic University (United States). Her research focuses on the role of food and diet in human adaptation and evolution among contemporary populations. Drawing on evolutionary and biocultural frameworks and employing mixed methods, her work investigates how subsistence strategies, nutritional histories, and the environment shape genetic, physiological, and cultural adaptations. She is particularly interested in questions related to the consequences of global market integration for human health and well-being among rural and small-scale societies. She has experience working with rural and Indigenous communities in Latin America, addressing issues related to environmental and dietary adaptations, nutrition transition, chronic disease risk, and population genetics. Her most recent research project investigates the causes of variation in child growth trajectories among non-Western populations, aiming to better inform public health interventions using culturally and environmentally appropriate strategies. Building on this work, she is developing a research program that examines the life-course health outcomes related to water and food security resulting from the climate change–driven expansion of the mining industry among indigenous communities in Chile. Contact Dr. Fernández at catafernandezh@gmail.com------------------------------Find the paper discussed in this episode:John A. Bunce, Catalina I. Fernández, Caissa Revilla-Minaya; A causal model of human growth and its estimation using temporally sparse data. R Soc Open Sci. 1 August 2025; 12 (8): 250084. https://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.250084 ------------------------------Contact the Sausage of Science Podcast and the Human Biology Association:Facebook: facebook.com/groups/humanbiologyassociation/, Website: humbio.orgChris Lynn, Co-Host, Website: cdlynn.people.ua.edu/, E-mail: cdlynn@ua.edu, X:@Chris_LyMecca E. Howe, Co-Host, E-mail: howemecca@gmail.com, LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mecca-howe/
LAS ABUELAS Y LA GENÉTICA” El aporte de la ciencia en la búsqueda de los chicos desaparecidos------------------------------Contact Dr. Cardozo: dcardozo@bndg.gob.ar------------------------------Contact the Sausage of Science Podcast and Human Biology Association:Facebook: facebook.com/groups/humanbiologyassociation/, Website: humbio.org, Twitter: @HumBioAssocAnahi Ruderman, SoS Co-Producer, HBA Junior FellowE-mail: aniruderman@cenpat-conicet.gob.ar
theory, which proposes that coalitions may be useful in reputational competition (via, e.g., gossip) due to their improved abilities to collect, analyze, and disseminate relevant information. Trained as a multidisciplinary social scientist, Dr. Hess uses diverse quantitative and qualitative methods to explore human sociality and cognition, including psychological experiments, surveys, interviews, and ethnographic work. Dr. Hess received her PhD from UC Santa Barbara in biological anthropology and has worked for the Max Planck Institute for Human Development and the Institute for Theoretical Biology at Humboldt University. Contact Dr. Hess at nicolehess@wsu.edu ------------------------------Contact the Sausage of Science Podcast and the Human Biology Association:Facebook: facebook.com/groups/humanbiologyassociation/, Website: humbio.orgChris Lynn, Co-Host, Website: cdlynn.people.ua.edu/, E-mail: cdlynn@ua.edu, Twitter:@Chris_Ly
Behavior and Anthropology in the School of Integrative Biology at the University of Illinois. His work broadly focuses on genotype-phenotype map structure and the evolution of complex traits. You can view his website here: https://sib.illinois.edu/directory/profile/croseman and follow him on Twitter @EvoRoseman.------------------------------Find the paper discussed in this episode:Roseman, C. C., and B. M.Auerbach. 2025. “Evolving a Field: Can Evolutionary Theory Provide What the Study of Human Evolution Requires?.” Yearbook of Biological Anthropology 188, no. S80: e70127. https://doi.org/10.1002/ajpa.70127.------------------------------Contact the Sausage of Science Podcast and the Human Biology Association:Facebook: facebook.com/groups/humanbiologyassociation/, Website: humbio.orgCara Ocobock, Co-Host, Website: sites.nd.edu/cara-ocobock/, Email:cocobock@nd.edu, Twitter:@CaraOcobockChris Lynn, Co-Host, Website: cdlynn.people.ua.edu/, E-mail: cdlynn@ua.edu, Twitter:@Chris_Ly
Lewis, C. M. Jr. (2023). Oral metagenomes from Native American Ancestors reveal distinct microbial lineages in the pre-contact era. American Journal of Biological Anthropology, 182(4), 542–556. https://doi.org/10.1002/ajpa.24735------------------------------Contact Dr. Honap: tanvi.honap@uzh.chhttps://www.tanvihonap.com/------------------------------Contact the Sausage of Science Podcast and Human Biology Association:Facebook: facebook.com/groups/humanbiologyassociation/, Website: humbio.org, Twitter: @HumBioAssocChris Lynn, Co-Host Website: cdlynn.people.ua.edu/, E-mail: cdlynn@ua.edu, Twitter:@Chris_LyCara Ocobock, Co-Host, Website: sites.nd.edu/cara-ocobock/, Email:cocobock@nd.edu, Twitter:@CaraOcobockAnahi Ruderman, SoS Co-Producer, HBA Junior Fellow / E-mail: ruderman@cenpat-conicet.gob.ar
In this episode, hosts Courtney and Mecca talk with Dr. Sara Juengst about her bioarchaeological work in coastal Ecuador among the very early and early Gangala, including differing ideas of what it means to be a “body”, the sociocultural and subsistence roles of the ocean, and the benefits of combining paleopathological, mortuary, and stable isotopic analyses.Dr. Juengst is an associate professor at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, NC, USA. As an anthropological bioarchaeologist, her research integrates social theory and skeletal evidence to address lived experiences of disease, diet, migration, and violence in the past and present. Her research primarily focuses on South America (Bolivia, Ecuador, and Peru), but she does consulting work on projects in North Carolina, Kenya, and Nigeria. In all of her work, she explores how people navigated changing social and environmental climates and highlights how skeletons embody power and community. She earned her BA in Anthropology from Vanderbilt University in 2008 and her PhD in Anthropology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 2015.------------------------------Find the paper discussed in this episode:Juengst, S.L., Lunnis, R., Cruz, Y.Z., Cobb, E.M., Bythell, A. (2024). An Investigation of Identity and Ontology at Salango, Ecuador (BCE 100–300 CE)Combining Paleopathological, Mortuary, and Stable Isotopic Analyses. Bioarchaeology, 8(1-2). https://doi.org/10.5744/bi.2023.0010 ------------------------------Contact Dr. Juengst at sjuengst@charlotte.edu and follow her work at https://www.sarajuengst.com/ ------------------------------Contact the Sausage of Science Podcast and the Human Biology Association:Facebook: facebook.com/groups/humanbiologyassociation/, Website: humbio.orgCourtney Manthey, Co-HostWebsite: holylaetoli.com/ E-mail: cpierce4@uccs.edu, Twitter: @HolyLaetoliMecca Howe, SoS Producer, HBA FellowLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mecca-howe/, Email: howemecca@gmail.com
Agosto, E. R. (2023). Morphology, evolution, and the whole organism imperative: Why evolutionary questions need multi‐trait evolutionary quantitative genetics. American Journal of Biological Anthropology, 181, 180-211.------------------------------Contact Dr. Auerbach: auerbach@utk.edu------------------------------Contact the Sausage of Science Podcast and Human Biology Association:Facebook: facebook.com/groups/humanbiologyassociation/, Website: humbio.org, Twitter: @HumBioAssocChris Lynn, Host Website: cdlynn.people.ua.edu/, E-mail: cdlynn@ua.edu, Twitter:@Chris_LyCara Ocobock, HostWebsite: sites.nd.edu/cara-ocobock/, Email:cocobock@nd.edu, Twitter:@CaraOcobockCristina Gildee, SoS Co-Producer, HBA Junior FellowWebsite: cristinagildee.com, E-mail: cgildee@uw.edu
En este episodio, Anahí y Mecca conversan con la Dra. Sofía Olmedo sobre su nuevo proyecto sobre diabetes tipo 2 en la comunidad Qom de Argentina y los beneficios de utilizar la investigación acción participativa.Dra. Sofía Olmedo es Licenciada en Nutrición por la Universidad Cuenca del Plata de Formosa y Doctora en Ciencias de la Salud (FCM-UNC). Actualmente es Investigadora asistente de CONICET y Profesora adjunta en la Universidad Nacional de Formosa. Trabaja en estudios sobre nutrición y alimentación desde la perspectiva de la salud colectiva. Aborda temas relacionados con salud intercultural, el medio ambiente, soberanía alimentaria, seguridad alimentaria e hídrica en contextos de diversidad cultural. Sus investigaciones se originan en el marco del Programa de Ecología Reproductiva del Chaco Oriental (PERCHA), dentro del cual se realizan estudios relacionados con la fertilidad, crecimiento infantil, y salud general de las comunidades originarias de la región del Gran Chaco. Su investigación doctoral titulada “Determinación social de la alimentación y estado nutricional de preescolares qom de Formosa” fue realizada en una comunidad qom periurbana (Namqom) de la ciudad de Formosa Capital. Actualmente, está trabajando en el proyecto de investigación acción participativa “Repensando la Diabetes: una estrategia intercultural liderada por iniciativa comunitaria de salud en una comunidad indígena de Argentina” junto con tres miembros de la comunidad qom de Formosa.------------------------------Contact Dr. Olmedo at sofiaireneolmedo@gmail.com o sofiaolmedo@conicet.gov.ar------------------------------Contact the Sausage of Science Podcast and the Human Biology Association:Facebook: facebook.com/groups/humanbiologyassociation/, Website: humbio.org, Twitter: @HumBioAssocAnahi Ruderman, SoS Co-Producer, HBA Junior FellowE-mail: aniruderman@gmail.com, Twitter: @ani_rudermanMecca Howe, SoS Co-Producer, HBA FellowLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mecca-howe/, Email: howemecca@gmail.com
Join us for a conversation about decolonizing research, rethinking education, and building institutions that actually serve the communities at their center.Chris sits down with Dr. Alyssa Crittenden, who returns to the show, this time as Vice Provost for Graduate Education and Dean of the Graduate College at UNLV. Since we last talked about community-based participatory research with the Hadza, her work has expanded across research, leadership, and institutional change. We discuss how she balances administration with fieldwork and what it means to advocate for ethical, community-driven science from within the academy.Drawing on recent publications in Nature Human Behaviour and Nature Microbiology, Alyssa unpacks Indigenous child socialization, the structural violence embedded in many schooling systems, and how education can provide access to literacy and credentials without erasing local knowledge. We also explore the difference between “community-inclusive” and true community-based participatory research, the pitfalls of the word traditional, the value of tiered informed consent, and what equitable international collaboration looks like in practice.------------------------------Find the work discussed in this episode: Hays, J., Dounias, E., Ninkova, V. et al. Sustainable education should include Indigenous knowledge. Nat Hum Behav (2025). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41562-025-02288-1Mangola, S.M., Lund, J.R., Schnorr, S.L. et al. Ethical microbiome research with Indigenous communities. Nat Microbiol 7, 749–756 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41564-022-01116-w------------------------------Contact Dr. Crittenden: alyssa.crittenden@unlv.edu------------------------------Contact the Sausage of Science Podcast and Human Biology Association:Facebook: facebook.com/groups/humanbiologyassociation/, Website: humbio.org, Twitter: @HumBioAssocChris Lynn, Host Website: cdlynn.people.ua.edu/, E-mail: cdlynn@ua.edu, Twitter:@Chris_LyCristina Gildee, SoS Co-Producer, HBA Junior FellowWebsite: cristinagildee.com, E-mail: cgildee@uw.edu,
We’re long overdue for this conversation. In this episode, Chris and Courtney sit down with Dr. Inês Varela-Silva, Reader in Biocultural Studies and Community Health at Loughborough University, to talk about methods and why evidence synthesis matters for equity in science. We trace her path into anthropology and human biology before diving into the SCRIBE (SystematiC Reviews In Biocultural rEsearch) toolkit, recently published in the American Journal of Human Biology. We explore why biocultural research has historically underused systematic reviews and how excluding biocultural factors can bias evidence against Indigenous, minority, and small-scale populations. We also discuss SCRIBE’s six-step framework and the value of tools like Notion and Trello, alongside reflections on The Maya Project.------------------------------Find the work discussed in this episode: Varela-Silva, M. I., N. Rush, and N. Pearson. 2025. “ Conducting Scoping and Systematic Reviews With a Focus on Biocultural Research: The SCRIBE Toolkit.” American Journal of Human Biology 37, no. 9: e70133. https://doi.org/10.1002/ajhb.70133.https://repository.lboro.ac.uk/articles/online_resource/The_SCRIBE_toolkit/29364935?file=57972535------------------------------Contact Dr. Varela-Silva: M.I.O.Varela-Silva@lboro.ac.uk------------------------------Contact the Sausage of Science Podcast and Human Biology Association:Facebook: facebook.com/groups/humanbiologyassociation/, Website: humbio.org, Twitter: @HumBioAssocChris Lynn, Host Website: cdlynn.people.ua.edu/, E-mail: cdlynn@ua.edu, Twitter:@Chris_LyCourtney Manthey, Co-Host, Website: holylaetoli.com/ E-mail: Courtney.Manthey@umconnect.umt.edu, Twitter: @HolyLaetoliCristina Gildee, SoS Co-Producer, HBA Junior FellowWebsite: cristinagildee.com, E-mail: cgildee@uw.edu,
Filimoehala, C. (2025). Assessing settlement diversity in Sāmoa. Journal of Island and Coastal Archaeology, 1–29. https://doi.org/10.1080/15564894.2025.2509519 ------------------------------Contact Dr. Quintus: SQuintus@hawaii.edu ------------------------------Contact the Sausage of Science Podcast and the Human Biology Association:Facebook: facebook.com/groups/humanbiologyassociation/, Website: humbio.org, Twitter: @HumBioAssocChris Lynn, Co-Host Website: cdlynn.people.ua.edu/, E-mail: cdlynn@ua.edu, Twitter:@Chris_LyCourtney Manthey, Co-HostWebsite: holylaetoli.com/ E-mail: cpierce4@uccs.edu, Twitter: @HolyLaetoliMecca Howe, SoS Producer, HBA FellowLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mecca-howe/, Email: howemecca@gmail.com
Stephen McGarvey is Professor Emeritus of Epidemiology at Brown University School of Public Health and Professor of Anthropology (Courtesy) at Brown University. He is an elected Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and on the editorial board of the American Journal of Human Biology. He was the recipient of the 2025 Franz Boas Distinguished Achievement Award from the Human Biology Association. McGarvey earned a Ph.D. in Anthropology from Pennsylvania State University in 1980, and an M.P.H. in Epidemiology from Yale University in 1984. McGarvey is concerned with issues of human population biology and global health, specifically modernization-related induced socio-economic and behavioral changes, genetic and environmental influences on obesity and cardiovascular disease risk factor, and child nutritional status. His research involves low and middle income countries now focused on Samoa, American Samoa, and South Africa.In this episode we discuss his concluding chapter of Princeton University Press book on Samoa research.------------------------------Contact Dr. McGarvey: stephen_mcgarvey@brown.edu------------------------------Contact the Sausage of Science Podcast and the Human Biology Association:Facebook: facebook.com/groups/humanbiologyassociation/, Website: humbio.org, Twitter: @HumBioAssocChris Lynn, Co-Host Website: cdlynn.people.ua.edu/, E-mail: cdlynn@ua.edu, Twitter:@Chris_LyCourtney Manthey, Guest-Co-Host, Website: holylaetoli.com/ E-mail: cpierce4@uccs.edu, Twitter: @HolyLaetoliAnahi Ruderman, SoS Co-Producer, HBA Junior Fellow, E-mail: ruderman@cenpat-conicet.gob.ar
Yardumian, A. (2023). Genetic analysis of Mingrelians reveals long-term continuity of populations in Western Georgia (Caucasus). Genome Biology and Evolution, 15(11), evad198.Ancient Lineages: Reconstructing the Genetic History of Svaneti, Northwest Georgia https://www.penn.museum/sites/expedition/ancient-lineages/------------------------------Contact Dr. Schurr: tgschurr@sas.upenn.edu ------------------------------Contact the Sausage of Science Podcast and the Human Biology Association:Facebook: facebook.com/groups/humanbiologyassociation/, Website: humbio.org, Twitter: @HumBioAssocChris Lynn, Co-Host Website: cdlynn.people.ua.edu/, E-mail: cdlynn@ua.edu, Twitter:@Chris_LyCara Ocobock, Co-HostWebsite: sites.nd.edu/cara-ocobock/, Email:cocobock@nd.edu, Twitter:@CaraOcobockMecca Howe, SoS Co-Producer, HBA Fellow LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mecca-howe/, Email: howemecca@gmail.com
Fox, M. M. (2024). Association of pica with cortisol and inflammation among Latina pregnant women. American Journal of Human Biology, 36(5), e24025. https://doi.org/10.1002/ajhb.24025------------------------------Contact Dr. Wylie: kwiley@utep.edu------------------------------Contact the Sausage of Science Podcast and Human Biology Association:Facebook: facebook.com/groups/humanbiologyassociation/, Website: humbio.org, Twitter: @HumBioAssocChris Lynn, Host Website: cdlynn.people.ua.edu/, E-mail: cdlynn@ua.edu, Twitter:@Chris_LyCourtney Manthey, Co-Host, Website: holylaetoli.com/ E-mail: cmanthey@uccs.edu, Twitter: @HolyLaetoliCristina Gildee, SoS Co-Producer, HBA Junior FellowWebsite: cristinagildee.com, E-mail: cgildee@uw.edu,
Brewis, A. 2025. Defining and deploying gender/sex in human biology: Where are we? Where should we be? American Journal of Human Biology 37(6):e70093 https://doi.org/10.1002/ajhb.70093 (2025)------------------------------Contact Dr. SturtzSreetharan: cindi.sturtzsreetharan@asu.edu ------------------------------Contact the Sausage of Science Podcast and the Human Biology Association:Facebook: facebook.com/groups/humanbiologyassociation/, Website: humbio.org, Twitter: @HumBioAssocChris Lynn, Co-Host Website: cdlynn.people.ua.edu/, E-mail: cdlynn@ua.edu, Twitter:@Chris_LyMecca Howe, Co-Host, HBA FellowEmail: howemecca@gmail.com, Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mecca-howe-phd-22a48173/
Hofman, C. A. (2025). Exercises in ethically engaged work in biological anthropology. American Journal of Biological Anthropology, 186(1), e25015.------------------------------Contact Dr. Zuckerman: mzuckerman@anthro.msstate.edu------------------------------Contact the Sausage of Science Podcast and Human Biology Association:Facebook: facebook.com/groups/humanbiologyassociation/, Website: humbio.org, Twitter: @HumBioAssocCristina Gildee, Co-Host, Co-Producer, HBA FellowWebsite: cristinagildee.com, E-mail: cgildee@uw.edu, Mecca Howe, Co-Host, Co-Producer, HBA Fellow E-mail: mhowebur@charlotte.edu
Dr. Nicola Hawley is an Associate Professor of Epidemiology at the Yale School of Public Health, where she also holds a secondary appointment in Anthropology. She serves as Associate Director for Dissemination and Implementation Science at the Yale Center for Clinical Investigation. Trained as a human biologist, Dr. Hawley is an internationally recognized expert in maternal and child health, with a focus on how early life experiences, from pregnancy through childhood, shape long-term risks for obesity and chronic disease. Her research bridges epidemiology, anthropology, and global health, using community-engaged and culturally grounded approaches to improve health outcomes in under-resourced and Indigenous settings. Much of her work centers in the Pacific, particularly in Sāmoa and American Sāmoa, where she leads NIH- and PCORI-funded studies on gestational and Type 2 diabetes, obesity prevention, and intergenerational health. She’s also deeply committed to mentorship, helping train the next generation of global health and maternal-child health researchers.------------------------------Find the work discussed in this episode:Heinsberg LW, Loia M, Tasele S, Faasalele-Savusa K, Carlson JC, Anesi S, et al. (2025) Study protocol for the Health Outcomes in Pregnancy and Early Childhood (HOPE) Study: A mother-infant study in American Samoa. PLoS One 20(9): e0326644. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0326644------------------------------Contact the Sausage of Science Podcast and the Human Biology Association:Facebook: facebook.com/groups/humanbiologyassociation/, Website: humbio.org, Twitter: @HumBioAssocChris Lynn, Co-Host Website: cdlynn.people.ua.edu/, E-mail: cdlynn@ua.edu, Twitter:@Chris_LyCourtney Manthey, Guest-Co-Host, Website: holylaetoli.com/ E-mail: cpierce4@uccs.edu, Twitter: @HolyLaetoliAnahi Ruderman, SoS Co-Producer, HBA Junior Fellow, E-mail: ruderman@cenpat-conicet.gob.ar
Speth, J. D. (2025). Neanderthals, hypercarnivores, and maggots: Insights from stable nitrogen isotopes. Science Advances, 11(30), eadt7466. https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.adt7466 ------------------------------Contact Dr. Beasely: melmbeas@purdue.edu ------------------------------Contact the Sausage of Science Podcast and the Human Biology Association:Facebook: facebook.com/groups/humanbiologyassociation/, Website: humbio.org, Twitter: @HumBioAssocChris Lynn, Co-Host Website: cdlynn.people.ua.edu/, E-mail: cdlynn@ua.edu, Twitter:@Chris_LyCara Ocobock, Co-HostWebsite: sites.nd.edu/cara-ocobock/, Email:cocobock@nd.edu, Twitter:@CaraOcobockMecca Howe, SoS Co-Producer, HBA FellowEmail: howemecca@gmail.com
Cecilia Padilla Iglesias estudió Ciencias Humanas y de la Evolución en University College de Londres, donde empezó a interesarse por cómo surgió y cambió la diversidad cultural y biológica en nuestra especie. Hizo un máster en Antropología Evolutiva en Cambridge y luego un doctorado en la Universidad de Zúrich sobre cómo los cambios ecológicos y sociales han moldeado la dinámica de las poblaciones humanas. Durante el doctorado pasó varios meses en la República del Congo trabajando con comunidades nómadas de cazadores-recolectores. Hoy trabaja en Cambridge con una beca de investigación, estudiando cómo la vida nómada y la movilidad se reflejan en el genoma de estas poblaciones. La idea central de su trabajo es que la movilidad ha sido clave para la resiliencia de los humanos durante cientos de miles de años, y que fue lo que permitió adaptarse a enormes cambios ecológicos y demográficos en los diferentes ecosistemas que fue habitando.------------------------------Encuentra el trabajo comentado en este episodio:Padilla-Iglesias, C., Xue, Z., Leonardi, M., Paijmans, L.A,J., Colucci, M., … Manica, A. (2025). Pan-African metapopulation model explains Homo sapiens genetic and morphological evolution. bioRxiv 2025.05.22.655514; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2025.05.22.655514------------------------------Contact the Sausage of Science Podcast and the Human Biology Association:Facebook: facebook.com/groups/humanbiologyassociation/, Website: humbio.org, Twitter: @HumBioAssoc Anahí Ruderman, Guest-Co-Host, SoS Co-Producer, E-mail: ruderman@cenpat-conicet.gob.ar
Lawrence M. Schell is a Distinguished Professor in the Department of Anthropology and the College of Integrated Health Sciences at the University at Albany, SUNY, with a joint appointment in the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics. His research explores the interrelationship between biology and culture, with a particular focus on how contemporary urban environments shape human health and development. Dr. Schell’s early work examined noise as a form of urban stress, investigating its effects on prenatal and postnatal growth. He later expanded his research to include pollutants such as polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) and lead, situating these exposures within the broader context of urban adaptation and health disparities. The study of lead exposure in Albany, NY, examined its influence on child physical and cognitive development, with attention to maternal nutrition and other factors that affect the transfer of lead from mother to fetus. In partnership with the Akwesasne Mohawk Nation he has recently completed three major projects. The first examined how PCBs that were used in manufacturing affect physical and sexual development during adolescence. His second project followed up the adolescents in project 1 to learn how exposure had influenced their transition into adulthood. The third project, also conducted with the Akwesasne community, explored how environmental pollutants may impact reproductive health and fertility among women. Through this work, Dr. Schell highlights the urban environment as a critical frontier for human adaptation, emphasizing the challenges posed by pollution, stress, and other features of modern city life while recognizing that these challenges are inequitably distributed in society. In 2004 Schell established a research center at Albany with NIH support to grow research on health disparities. Continued NIH support culminated in an endowment grant that will support the center and the development of health disparities research for many years to come.------------------------------Contact the Sausage of Science Podcast and the Human Biology Association:Facebook: facebook.com/groups/humanbiologyassociation/, Website: humbio.org, Twitter: @HumBioAssocChris Lynn, Co-Host Website: cdlynn.people.ua.edu/, E-mail: cdlynn@ua.edu, Twitter:@Chris_LyCourtney Manthey, Guest-Co-Host, Website: holylaetoli.com/ E-mail: cpierce4@uccs.edu, Twitter: @HolyLaetoliAnahi Ruderman, SoS Co-Producer, HBA Junior Fellow, E-mail: ruderman@cenpat-conicet.gob.ar
The Journal of Nutrition (2025).------------------------------Contact Dr. Larson: LARSONL@mailbox.sc.eduWebsite: thenelilab.com------------------------------Contact the Sausage of Science Podcast and Human Biology Association:Facebook: facebook.com/groups/humanbiologyassociation/, Website: humbio.org, Twitter: @HumBioAssocChris Lynn, Host Website: cdlynn.people.ua.edu/, E-mail: cdlynn@ua.edu, Twitter:@Chris_LyCristina Gildee, Co-Host, Co-Producer, HBA FellowWebsite: cristinagildee.com, E-mail: cgildee@uw.edu,
Dr. Sofía Pacheco-Fores is a bioarchaeologist whose research focuses on migration in ancient Mexico. Using a range of methods including archaeological biogeochemistry and phenotypic variation in human skeletal and dental morphology, she reconstructs migration patterns to understand the experiences of past migrants and their recipient communities. She examines the role migration played in social and cultural change, including in ancient state formation, the spread of novel material culture complexes, the expression of social inequality, and eruptions of mass violence. She has on-going collaborative research projects in central Mexico, Oaxaca, and northwestern Mexico.In addition to her research, Dr. Pacheco-Fores is involved in science education and outreach activities with the goal of fostering increased inclusion and diversity within anthropology. She is a Senior Editor at Anthro Illustrated, a collaborative project creating illustrations of anthropologists of diverse backgrounds at work. She also encourages increased representation and participation in anthropology through the Skype A Scientist program, speaking with bilingual K-12 students about anthropology and bioarchaeology. ------------------------------Find the paper discussed in this episode:SI Pacheco-Fores, CT Morehart. 2024. Beyond “non-local”: biogeochemical and morphological approaches to examining diverse migrant experiences in Epiclassic central Mexico. Bioarchaeology International 8:104-122. https://doi.org/10.5744/bi.2022.0038 SI Pacheco-Fores, CT Morehart, JE Buikstra, GW Gordon, KJ Knudson. 2021. Migration, violence, and the “other”: a biogeochemical approach to identity-based violence in the Epiclassic Basin of Mexico. Journal of Anthropological Archaeology 61: 101263. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jaa.2020.101263------------------------------Contact Dr. Azcorra-Pérez: sipf@umn.edu------------------------------Contact the Sausage of Science Podcast and Human Biology Association:Facebook: facebook.com/groups/humanbiologyassociation/, Website: humbio.org, Twitter: @HumBioAssocChris Lynn, Co-Host Website: cdlynn.people.ua.edu/, E-mail: cdlynn@ua.edu, Twitter:@Chris_LyCourtney Manthey, Guest-Co-Host, Website: holylaetoli.com/ E-mail: cpierce4@uccs.edu, Twitter: @HolyLaetoliAnahi Ruderman, SoS Co-Producer, HBA Junior Fellow/ E-mail: ruderman@cenpat-conicet.gob.ar
Lifshitz, M. (2024). The Spiral of Attention, Arousal, and Release: A Comparative Phenomenology of Jhāna Meditation and Speaking in Tongues. American Journal of Human Biology, 36(12), e24189. doi.org/10.1002/ajhb.24189------------------------------Contact Dr. Brahinsky: jbrahins@gmail.com------------------------------Contact the Sausage of Science Podcast and Human Biology Association:Facebook: facebook.com/groups/humanbiologyassociation/, Website: humbio.org, Twitter: @HumBioAssocChris Lynn, HostWebsite: cdlynn.people.ua.edu/, E-mail: cdlynn@ua.edu, Twitter:@Chris_LyCara Ocobock, HostWebsite: sites.nd.edu/cara-ocobock/, Email:cocobock@nd.edu, Twitter:@CaraOcobockCristina Gildee, SoS Co-Producer, HBA FellowWebsite: cristinagildee.org, E-mail: cgildee@uw.edu,
Alex got her degree from the University of Notre Dame in 2022 after finishing her dissertation on the variation in brown adipose tissue thermogenesis and its effects on metabolic health markers in adults from Samoa. She is currently a postdoctoral fellow at Pennington Biomedical Research Center working on the Military Health and Nutrition Examinations Study (MHANES) (PI: Dr. Claire Berryman). In collaboration with the US Army Research Institute of Environmental Medicine, her work with MHANES examines how the interactions between environmental (i.e. temperature, altitude), behavioral (i.e. physical activity, nutrition, sleep), and physiological (i.e. body composition, energy expenditure, metabolic health markers) factors affect health and performance in active-duty service members. She frequently collaborate with colleagues on anthropological research projects focusing on the effects of physiological adaptations/adjustments to the extremes and is passionate about bringing anthropological perspectives to clinical and military-focused research. ------------------------------Find the paper discussed in this episode:Sarma, M. S., Niclou, A. M., & Hurd, K. J. (2025). Methodologic Opportunities for Space Health Research: Integrating Biological Anthropology Methods in Human Research for Precision Space Health and Medical Data. Wilderness & Environmental Medicine, 36(1_suppl), 104S-112S. https://doi.org/10.1177/10806032251349436------------------------------Contact Dr. Niclou: Alexandra.Niclou@pbrc.edu------------------------------Contact the Sausage of Science Podcast and Human Biology Association:Facebook: facebook.com/groups/humanbiologyassociation/, Website: humbio.org, Twitter: @HumBioAssocCara Ocobock, Co-Host, Website: sites.nd.edu/cara-ocobock/, Email:cocobock@nd.edu, Twitter:@CaraOcobockAnahi Ruderman, SoS Co-Producer, HBA Junior FellowE-mail: aniruderman@gmail.com, Twitter: @ani_ruderman
This week on the Sausage of Science, Cara sits down with two trailblazing scholars shaping the future of paleoanthropology from the African continent outward. Dr. Palesa Madupe, postdoctoral researcher at the University of Copenhagen’s Globe Institute, shares her pioneering work on enamel proteomics—reconstructing protein sequences from Paranthropus robustus and other South African hominins to unravel questions of taxonomy, sex determination, and sexual dimorphism. Joining her is Professor Becky Ackermann of the University of Cape Town, co-director of the Human Evolution Research Institute (HERI), whose influential research on evolutionary processes, phenotypic variation, and human diversity is reframing our understanding of our evolutionary story. Together, they highlight how African-led research is reshaping the global narrative of human origins, one fossil and one protein at a time.------------------------------Find the paper discussed in this episode: Madupe, P. P., Koenig, C., Patramanis, I., Rüther, P. L., Hlazo, N., Mackie, M., ... & Cappellini, E. (2025). Enamel proteins reveal biological sex and genetic variability in southern African Paranthropus. Science, 388(6750), 969-973. DOI: 10.1126/science.adt9539 ------------------------------Contact Dr. Madupe: palesa.madupe@sund.ku.dkContact Dr. Ackermann: becky.ackermann@uct.ac.zaHuman Evolution Research Institute (HERI) website: https://www.heriuct.co.za/ ------------------------------Contact the Sausage of Science Podcast and Human Biology Association:Facebook: facebook.com/groups/humanbiologyassociation/, Website: humbio.org, Twitter: @HumBioAssocCara Ocobock, Host, Website: sites.nd.edu/cara-ocobock/, Email:cocobock@nd.edu, Twitter:@CaraOcobockCristina Gildee, SoS Co-Producer, HBA Junior FellowWebsite: cristinagildee.org, E-mail: cgildee@uw.edu,
Jake Aronoff is a human biologist studying immune function and aging from an evolutionary and ecological perspective. During his PhD, he studied how stress and social inequality impacts inflammation and immunosenescence in the Philippines and US. He is currently a postdoctoral researcher at ASU studying inflammation and aging with Ben Trumble and the Tsimane Health and Life History Project. These studies focus on the development of chronic inflammation in later life (inflammaging), the links between metabolic and immune function (immunometabolism and meta-inflammation), and the relationship between infections, inflammation, and brain aging. His research also utilizes life history theory and energetic trade-offs to understand complex changes in biological functioning in later life, like the simultaneous occurrence of inflammaging and immunosenescence. ------------------------------Find the paper discussed in this episode:Aronoff, J. E., Trumble, B. C. (2025). An evolutionary medicine and life history perspective on aging and disease: Trade-offs, hyperfunction, and mismatch, Evolution, Medicine, and Public Health, 13(1), 111–124. https://doi.org/10.1093/emph/eoaf010Aronoff, J. E., Koning, S. M., Adair, L. S., Lee, N. R., Carba, D. B., Kuzawa, C. W., & McDade, T. W. (2024). Intimate partner violence, depression, and chronic low-grade inflammation among middle-aged women in Cebu, Philippines. American journal of human biology : the official journal of the Human Biology Council, 36(6), e24053. https://doi.org/10.1002/ajhb.24053 ------------------------------Contact the Sausage of Science Podcast and the Human Biology Association:Facebook: facebook.com/groups/humanbiologyassociation/, Website: humbio.org, Twitter: @HumBioAssocChris Lynn, Co-Host Website: cdlynn.people.ua.edu/, E-mail: cdlynn@ua.edu, Twitter:@Chris_LyAnahi Ruderman, SoS Co-Producer, HBA Junior Fellow. E-mail: ruderman@cenpat-conicet.gob.ar.
Dr. Luisa María Rivera is a critical biocultural anthropologist whose work examines how social inequality, trauma, and structural violence shape reproductive and maternal–infant health. She integrates ethnographic research with epigenomic and other molecular approaches to trace how stress during development can reverberate across generations and to understand the implications of these findings for health policy. Luisa earned her B.A. from Harvard (2008), an M.P.H. from the University of Minnesota (2015), and a Ph.D. in Anthropology from Emory University (2022). She is currently a Neukom Postdoctoral Fellow at Dartmouth College, mentored by Dr. Zaneta Thayer (Anthropology) and Dr. Brock Christensen (Geisel School of Medicine). Her research includes long-term work in post-war communities in Guatemala and with historically marginalized communities in the United States.Luisa previously joined the Sausage of Science “Hackademics” series in Episode 114, Dissertation Research in the Time of COVID-19.------------------------------Find the paper discussed in this episode: Vlasac, I. M., Stolrow, H. G., Thayer, Z. M., Christensen, B. C., & Rivera, L. (2025). DNA-based cell typing in menstrual effluent identifies cell type variation by sample collection method: toward noninvasive biomarker development for women’s health. Epigenetics, 20(1), 2453275. https://doi.org/10.1080/15592294.2025.2453275------------------------------Contact Luisa: E-mail: Luisa.Rivera@dartmouth.edu website: https://luisamariarivera.com/ Google Scholar------------------------------Contact the Sausage of Science Podcast and Human Biology Association:Facebook: facebook.com/groups/humanbiologyassociation/, Website: humbio.org, Twitter: @HumBioAssocChris Lynn, Host Website: cdlynn.people.ua.edu/, E-mail: cdlynn@ua.edu, Twitter:@Chris_LyCristina Gildee, Co-host, SoS Co-Producer, HBA Junior FellowWebsite: cristinagildee.org, E-mail: cgildee@uw.edu,
Leela McKinnon is a PhD Candidate in Evolutionary Anthropology at the University of Toronto and holds a Bachelor of Arts in Anthropology from Penn State University. Her PhD research examines sleep health in Indigenous Wixárika communities in Jalisco, Mexico, with a particular focus on the effects of rural-to-urban migration on sleep and circadian rhythms. Leela explores the environmental and social factors influencing the sleep health of urban Wixárika migrants. Beyond her dissertation research in Mexico, Leela has also studied sleep in a Guatemalan Maya community, investigating how urbanization and market economy integration shape sleep patterns in rural settings. She is trained in the quantitative analysis of sleep data using accelerometry and is proficient in mixed methodologies, including survey data collection and qualitative interviewing.------------------------------Find the paper discussed in this episode:McKinnon, L., Shattuck, E. C., Samson, D. R. (2022). Sound reasons for unsound sleep: Comparative support for the sentinel hypothesis in industrial and nonindustrial groups. Evol Med Public Health, 11(1):53-66. doi: 10.1093/emph/eoac039.------------------------------Contact Leela McKinnon: l.mckinnon@mail.utoronto.ca X account: @leela_mckinnon The Sleep and Human Evolution Lab's website is https://www.utm.utoronto.ca/shel/ ------------------------------Contact the Sausage of Science Podcast and the Human Biology Association:Facebook: facebook.com/groups/humanbiologyassociation/, Website: humbio.org, Twitter: @HumBioAssocChris Lynn, Co-Host Website: cdlynn.people.ua.edu/, E-mail: cdlynn@ua.edu, Twitter:@Chris_LyAnahi Ruderman, SoS Co-Producer, HBA Junior FellowE-mail: aniruderman@gmail.com,
Chris and Courtney sit down with Dr. Haley Ragsdale to discuss intergenerational signals of matrilineal experience. Haley completed her dissertation in Anthropology at Northwestern University in 2023 under the guidance of Dr. Chris Kuzawa. She is now a postdoctoral researcher in the Anthropology Department at the University of Illinois Chicago, collaborating with Dr. Katie Starkweather on fascinating projects related to maternal and child health among the Shodagor of Bangladesh. Haley’s work is deeply rooted in evolutionary theory and the developmental origins of health and disease (DOHaD) framework, with a focus on human reproductive biology. She explores how energetic experiences shape lifetime metabolic strategies and how reproductive investments are influenced by varying environmental contexts. Currently, she’s diving into the mechanisms behind intergenerational signals of matrilineal experience and predictive adaptive responses in humans.------------------------------Find the paper discussed in this episode: Ragsdale, H. B., Lee, N. R., & Kuzawa, C. W. (2024). Evidence that highly canalized fetal traits are sensitive to intergenerational effects of maternal developmental nutrition. American Journal of Biological Anthropology, 183(4), e24883. https://doi.org/10.1002/ajpa.24883 ------------------------------Contact Haley: E-mail: hragsd2@uic.edu website: https://haleyragsdale.squarespace.com/; Google Scholar------------------------------Contact the Sausage of Science Podcast and Human Biology Association:Facebook: facebook.com/groups/humanbiologyassociation/, Website: humbio.org, Twitter: @HumBioAssocChris Lynn, Host Website: cdlynn.people.ua.edu/, E-mail: cdlynn@ua.edu, Twitter:@Chris_LyCourtney Manthey, Guest-Co-Host, Website: holylaetoli.com/ E-mail: cpierce4@uccs.edu, Twitter: @HolyLaetoliCristina Gildee, SoS Co-Producer, HBA Junior FellowWebsite: cristinagildee.org, E-mail: cgildee@uw.edu,
La doctora Isaura Cruz es bio-antropóloga y sus intereses de investigación se centran en la amplia contribución del medio ambiente a la salud y el bienestar humanos. Ha examinado el desarrollo de las condiciones cardiovasculares y metabólicas entre los indígenas mexicanos P'urépecha en sus comunidades de origen en Michoacán, México y las comunidades de acogida en Carolina del Norte, EE.UU. Isaura utiliza un enfoque de métodos mixtos que incluye elementos de la nutrición, la salud pública, la genómica, aplicando siempre una lente biocultural.La investigación de que la conversaremos hoy es parte de su trabajo de tesis doctoral, titulada “Migración Internacional y Salud: P’urépecha en EEUU y México”. En particular hablaremos de un estudio binacional que realizaron entre los años 2018 y 2019, sobre la salud cardiometabólica en la comunidad P’urépecha, un pueblo originario del estado de Michoacán, México. El estudio consiste en una comparación de los factores de riesgo de salud cardiometabólica (CHM) entre quienes viven en sus comunidades de origen en Michoacán, México, y quienes viven en Carolina del Norte, EE. UU. Este trabajo integra perspectivas y métodos de la antropología, la salud pública, la demografía y la sociología, entre otros, para comprender mejor la salud en el contexto de la migración internacional.///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////Dr. Isaura Cruz is a bioanthropologist whose research focuses on the environmental factors that contribute to human health and well-being. She has studied the development of cardiovascular and metabolic conditions among P'urhépecha indigenous Mexicans in their home communities in Michoacán, Mexico and in host communities in North Carolina, USA. Dr. Cruz uses a mixed-methods approach that incorporates nutrition, public health, and genomics while applying a biocultural lens.The research we will discuss today is part of her doctoral dissertation, entitled International Migration and Health: P'urhépecha in the US and Mexico." Specifically, we will discuss a binational study conducted between 2018 and 2019 examining cardiometabolic health in the P'urhépecha community, an indigenous group in the state of Michoacán, Mexico. This study compares cardiometabolic health risk factors between individuals residing in their home communities in Michoacán and those residing in North Carolina. This work integrates perspectives and methods from anthropology, public health, demography, sociology, and other fields to better understand health in the context of international migration.------------------------------Contact Dr. Cruz: igodinezcruz@scu.edu ------------------------------Contact the Sausage of Science Podcast and Human Biology Association:Facebook: facebook.com/groups/humanbiologyassociation/, Website: humbio.org, Twitter: @HumBioAssocAnahi Ruderman, SoS Co-Producer, HBA Junior FellowE-mail: ruderman@cenpat-conicet.gob.arChris Lynn, Co-Host Website: cdlynn.people.ua.edu/, E-mail: cdlynn@ua.edu, Twitter:@Chris_Ly
In this episode, Chris and Cristina talk with Anamika Nanda, a PhD student in the Department of Biological Sciences and a Women in Science and Engineering (WiSE) Fellow at the University of Southern California. Anamika’s research, conducted under the guidance of Dr. David Raichlen, examines how physical activity affects neurological health across various genotypes.Before beginning her doctoral work, Anamika earned her Bachelor's degree in Medical Anthropology and Global Health from the University of Washington. Her award-winning honors thesis examined the relationship between motivation, physical activity, and psychosocial stress, and its impact on telomere length in collegiate swimmers and non-collegiate athletes.We discuss her path into science, her interdisciplinary approach to understanding brain health, and how her work connects athletics, stress, and aging. Anamika’s research has been recognized with an NSF-GRFP Honorable Mention, the UW Anthropology Department’s Best Honors Thesis Award, and a Mary Gates Research Scholarship.Tune in for an insightful conversation on the biology of movement, the value of interdisciplinary research, and what it means to study sports from a holistic perspective.------------------------------Find the paper discussed in this episode: Nanda, A., Logan, A., & Tennyson, R. L. (2024). The influence of perceived stress and motivation on telomere length among NCAA swimmers. American Journal of Human Biology, 36(9), e24091. https://doi.org/10.1002/ajhb.24091------------------------------Contact Anamika: E-mail: anamikan@usc.edu; LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/anamika-nanda-168b9b199------------------------------Contact the Sausage of Science Podcast and Human Biology Association:Facebook: facebook.com/groups/humanbiologyassociation/, Website: humbio.org, Twitter: @HumBioAssocChris Lynn, Host Website: cdlynn.people.ua.edu/, E-mail: cdlynn@ua.edu, Twitter:@Chris_LyCristina Gildee, Co-host, SoS Co-Producer, HBA Junior FellowWebsite: cristinagildee.org, E-mail: cgildee@uw.edu
Emily is a PhD student and biological anthropologist at Northwestern University and a Student Representative for the Human Biology Association. She studies brain development from an evolutionary perspective, focusing on how early life stress shapes cognitive, behavioral, social, and physiological development. Her dissertation examines how early adversity and parenting influence executive function, learning, and memory, exploring potential adaptive outcomes of early stress. Emily is also pursuing research on brain energetics during development in early childhood and developing field-friendly methods to study brain energetics for anthropologists. She’s passionate about bringing ideas and methods from neuroscience into the field of anthropology to better understand what shapes human behavior and biology.Contact Emily Barron: emilybarron2026@u.northwestern.eduTwitter: @emilyhbarron ------------------------------Contact the Sausage of Science Podcast and Human Biology Association:Facebook: facebook.com/groups/humanbiologyassociation/, Website: humbio.org, Twitter: @HumBioAssocChris Lynn, Co-Host Website: cdlynn.people.ua.edu/, E-mail: cdlynn@ua.edu, Twitter: @Chris_LyCourtney Manthey, Guest-Co-Host, Website: holylaetoli.com/ E-mail: cpierce4@uccs.edu, Twitter: @HolyLaetoli Anahi Ruderman, SoS Co-Producer, HBA Junior FellowE-mail: ruderman@cenpat-conicet.gob.ar, Twitter: @ani_ruderman
Chris and Cristina sit down with anthropologist and clinical speech-language pathologist Seth Dornisch, whose work bridges evolutionary theory, biocultural analysis, and clinical practice. Seth's dissertation research examines how to improve the quality of life and well-being for individuals experiencing neurological decline, with a focus on reducing suffering and promoting meaningful, positive experiences throughout the human lifespan. He recently completed his PhD in Medical Anthropology at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and is now an Assistant Professor in the Department of Communication Disorders at SUNY New Paltz.------------------------------Find the Papers discussed in this episode: Dornisch, S., Sievert, L., Sharmeen, T., Begum, K., Muttukrishna, S., Chowdhury, O., & Bentley, G. (2024). Religious minority identity associates with stress and psychological health among Muslim and Hindu women in Bangladesh and London. American Journal of Human Biology, 36(12), e24057.------------------------------Contact Seth: E-mail: sdornisch@umass.edu------------------------------Contact the Sausage of Science Podcast and Human Biology Association:Facebook: facebook.com/groups/humanbiologyassociation/, Website: humbio.org, Twitter: @HumBioAssocChris Lynn, Host Website: cdlynn.people.ua.edu/, E-mail: cdlynn@ua.edu, Twitter:@Chris_LyCristina Gildee, Co-host, SoS Co-Producer, HBA Junior FellowWebsite: cristinagildee.org, E-mail: cgildee@uw.edu
Chris and Cristina interview Dr. Pablo Nepomnaschy, a professor in the Faculty of Health Sciences at Simon Fraser University and a Michael Smith Foundation for Health Research Scholar. Originally from Argentina, Dr. Nepomnaschy began his academic journey with a degree in Biology from the University of Patagonia. He went on to earn his Ph.D. in Biological Anthropology and Ecology from the University of Michigan, where he also trained in reproductive sciences and social research. He completed his postdoctoral work at the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences and is an alum of the renowned LIFE Program at the Max Planck Institute in Berlin. Dr. Nepomnaschy’s research explores how social, ecological, and biological factors interact to shape human reproductive biology and health across the life course.------------------------------Find the Papers discussed in this episode:Rowlands, A., Juergensen, E. C., Prescivalli, A. P., Salvante, K. G., & Nepomnaschy, P. A. (2021). Social and Biological Transgenerational Underpinnings of Adolescent Pregnancy. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 18(22), 12152. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph182212152Dinsdale, N., Nepomnaschy, P., & Crespi, B. (2021). The evolutionary biology of endometriosis. Evolution, medicine, and public health, 9(1), 174-191.------------------------------Contact Dr. Nepomnaschy: E-mail: pablo_nepomnaschy@sfu.caListen to a previous episode with Pablo: SoS #72------------------------------Contact the Sausage of Science Podcast and Human Biology Association:Facebook: facebook.com/groups/humanbiologyassociation/, Website: humbio.org, Twitter: @HumBioAssocChris Lynn, Host Website: cdlynn.people.ua.edu/, E-mail: cdlynn@ua.edu, Twitter:@Chris_LyCristina Gildee, Co-host, SoS Co-Producer, HBA Junior FellowWebsite: cristinagildee.org, E-mail: cgildee@uw.edu
Christopher Bae is taking us on a journey to meet the hominids of Asia's past. Dr. Bae is a distinguished paleoanthropologist from the University of Hawai’i at Mānoa whose research focuses on human evolution in East Asia. Born in Korea and adopted by an American family, his unique personal journey sparked an early interest in race, human variation, and the deep history of our species. What began as a search for his own roots led him to a career dedicated to reconstructing the past—much like paleoanthropologists do when piecing together humanity’s evolutionary story. Dr. Bae has conducted extensive field and laboratory research across Korea, Japan, and China, collaborating on projects that span hominin fossils, vertebrate taphonomy, and lithic analysis. His work bridges disciplines in the social and natural sciences, providing a comprehensive perspective on Pleistocene hominin morphological and behavioral variation, particularly in Homo erectus and both archaic and modern Homo sapiens. With approximately 150 publications and over $1.5 million in extramural funding, Dr. Bae is a leading voice in understanding human evolution in East Asia.------------------------------Find the papers discussed in this episode:Bae, C. J., Liu, W., Wu, X., Zhang, Y., Ni, X. (2023). "Dragon man" prompts rethinking of Middle Pleistocene hominin systematics in Asia. Innovation (Camb), 4(6):100527. doi: 10.1016/j.xinn.2023.100527. Bae, C.J., Wu, X. Making sense of eastern Asian Late Quaternary hominin variability. Nat Commun 15, 9479 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-024-53918-7Contact Dr. Bae: cjbae@hawaii.edu ------------------------------Contact the Sausage of Science Podcast and Human Biology Association:Facebook: facebook.com/groups/humanbiologyassociation/, Website: humbio.org, Twitter: @HumBioAssocChris Lynn, Co-Host Website: cdlynn.people.ua.edu/, E-mail: cdlynn@ua.edu, Twitter:@Chris_LyCourtney Manthey, Guest Co-Host, Website: holylaetoli.com/ E-mail: cpierce4@uccs.edu, Twitter: @HolyLaetoliAnahi Ruderman, Guest Co-Host , SoS Co-Producer, HBA Junior Fellow, E-mail: aniruderman@gmail.com, Twitter: @ani_ruderman
BioChris and Cristina interview Agustín Fuentes about his new book, Sex Is a Spectrum: The Biological Limits of the Binary (now available). Prof. Fuentes is an anthropologist whose research focuses on the biosocial, delving into the entanglement of biological systems with the social and cultural lives of humans, our ancestors, and a few of the other animals with whom humanity shares close relations. From chasing monkeys in jungles and cities, to exploring the lives of our evolutionary ancestors, to examining human health, behavior, and diversity across the globe, Professor Fuentes is interested in both the big questions and the small details of what makes humans and our close relations tick. Earning his BA/BS in Anthropology and Zoology and his MA and PhD in Anthropology from UC Berkeley, he has conducted research across four continents, multiple species, and two million years of human history. His current projects include exploring cooperation, creativity, and belief in human evolution, multispecies anthropologies, evolutionary theory and processes, and engaging race and racism. Fuentes is an active public scientist, a well-known blogger, lecturer, tweeter, and an explorer for National Geographic. Fuentes was recently awarded the Inaugural Communication & Outreach Award from the American Association of Biological Anthropologists, the President’s Award from the American Anthropological Association, and elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.Dr. Fuentes previously appeared in episodes 48 & 85 in which he shared his origin story & read an excerpt from a previous book.------------------------------Find the Books discussed in this episode:Fuentes, A. (2025) Sex is a Spectrum: The Biological Limits of the Binary Princeton University PressFuentes, A. (2022) Race, Monogamy, and other lies they told you: busting myths about human nature 2nd edition. University of California PressFuentes, A, (2019) Why We Believe: Evolution and the Human Way of Being Yale University Press/Templeton PressFuentes, A. (2017) The Creative Spark: how imagination made humans exceptional Dutton/Penguin 2017 Romanian Translation (Publica), 2017 Chinese Translation (CITIC Publishing House), 2018 Spanish Translation (Ariel/Planeta), 2018 Korean Translation (Chungrim Publishing Co.)------------------------------Contact Dr. Fuentes: Website: https://afuentes.com; E-mail: afuentes2@Princeton.edu; Blue Sky @anthrofuentes.bsky.social; Twitter/X: @Anthrofuentes------------------------------Contact the Sausage of Science Podcast and Human Biology Association:Facebook: facebook.com/groups/humanbiologyassociation/, Website: humbio.org, Twitter: @HumBioAssocChris Lynn, Host Website: cdlynn.people.ua.edu/, E-mail: cdlynn@ua.edu, Twitter:@Chris_LyCristina Gildee, Co-host, SoS Co-Producer, HBA Junior FellowWebsite: cristinagildee.org, E-mail: cgildee@uw.edu
Es este episodio especial conversamos con Rolando González-José sobre la institucionalidad de la Antropología Biológica (y de la ciencia) en distintos contextos, en especial en la América Latina del presente. Rolando González José es Investigador Principal del CONICET (Argentina) y Coordinador del Programa de Referencia y Biobanco Genómico de la Población Argentina. Se graduó de Biólogo en la Universidad Nacional de la Patagonia, y realizó su Doctorado en Biología Humana en la Universidad de Barcelona, España.Fue dos veces Vicedirector del Centro Nacional Patagónico, el mayor centro de investigación multidisciplinaria del CONICET en la Patagonia. También fue Director del Instituto Patagónico de Ciencias Sociales y Humanas. Fue presidente de la Asociación Argentina de Antropología Biológica entre 2009 y 2011, y Vicepresidente de la Asociación Latinoamericana de Antropología Biológica (entre 2013 y 2015).Presenta más de 120 publicaciones en distintas revistas científicas incluyendo Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (USA), Nature Communications, Journal of Human Evolution, American Journal of Human Biology, PLoS Genetics, entre otras. En el año 2004 fundó el Grupo de Investigación en Biología Humana, integrado por 15 profesionales entre los que se cuentan antropólogos, genetistas, nutricionistas, biólogos, médicos e informáticos. Sus intereses de investigación giran en torno a la genética de poblaciones, la evolución de la variación craneofacial eh homínidos, el poblamiento Americano, las poblaciones cosmopolitas de Latinoamérica y el desarrollo de dispositivos basados en tecnología de imagen para aplicaciones biomédicas. Contact Dr. González-José: rolando@cenpat-conicet.gob.arTwitter: @RoloGonzalezOK Facebook: facebook.com/rolando.gonzalezjose------------------------------Contact the Sausage of Science Podcast and Human Biology Association:Facebook: facebook.com/groups/humanbiologyassociation/, Website: humbio.org, Twitter: @HumBioAssocCristina Gildee, Co-Host, SoS Producer, HBA Junior Fellow Website: cristinagildee.org, E-mail: cgildee@uw.edu, Twitter:@CristinaGildeeAnahi Ruderman, Co-Host, SoS Co-Producer, HBA Junior FellowE-mail: aniruderman@gmail.com, Twitter: @ani_rudermanMiguel Ochoa, Guest Co-HostE-mail: mochoa88@uw.edu,
Host Courtney Manthey unpack the obstetric dilemma with Dr. Anna G. Warrener. Dr. Anna G. Warrener earned her PhD from Washington University in St. Louis in 2012. She is now an assistant professor of anthropology at the University of Colorado Denver. She specializes in human evolutionary biology, biomechanics, and the evolution of locomotion. Her research explores how skeletal morphology influences movement, with a particular focus on the biomechanics of the pelvis, gait, and bipedal efficiency. Through experimental and comparative approaches, Dr. Warrener investigates how evolutionary pressures have shaped human locomotion and what these adaptations reveal about our ancestors. She is also passionate about mentoring students and fostering interdisciplinary research that bridges anthropology, biology, and biomechanics. ------------------------------Find the paper discussed in this episode:Warrener, A. (2023). The multifactor pelvis: An alternative to the adaptationist approach of the obstetrical dilemma. Evolutionary Anthropology, 32(5), 260-274.https://doi.org/10.1002/evan.21997Warrener, A. (2024). Human lower limb muscle cross sectional area scales with positive allometry reflecting bipedal evolutionary history. Frontiers in Earth Science. https://doi.org/10.3389/feart.2023.1301411------------------------------Contact the Sausage of Science Podcast and Human Biology Association:Facebook: facebook.com/groups/humanbiologyassociation/, Website: humbio.org, Twitter: @HumBioAssocCourtney Manthey, Host, Website: holylaetoli.com/ E-mail: cpierce4@uccs.edu, Twitter: @HolyLaetoliAnahi Ruderman, SoS Co-Producer, HBA Junior FellowE-mail: aniruderman@gmail.com, Twitter: @ani_ruderman
Chris and Cristina chat with Dr. Ian Wallace, an Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of New Mexico, where he is the director of the Human Physical Activity Lab. As an Evolutionary Anthropologist, Ian's work focuses on how humans evolved to use their bodies and explores the costs and benefits of modern physical activity patterns for our health. He is particularly interested in populations transitioning from non-industrial to industrial and post-industrial contexts.Ian earned his Ph.D. in Anthropology in 2013 from Stony Brook University, where his dissertation examined how physical activity and genetics determine limb bone structure. Following graduate school and an initial postdoctoral position at Stony Brook, he completed his postdoctoral training in the Department of Human Evolutionary Biology at Harvard and started his own lab at UNM. There, he focuses on measures of locomotor biomechanics and their ties to the health and function of the musculoskeletal system. Recently, his fieldwork has focused on the Indigenous peoples of Peninsular Malaysia. In particular, he is interested in how their lifestyles are changing with the rapid expansion of industries, the market economy, and urban areas across Malaysia, as well as how these changes affect their health and risk of disease.------------------------------Find the papers discussed in this episode:Wallace, I. J., Worthington, S., Felson, D. T., Jurmain, R. D., Wren, K. T., Maijanen, H., Woods, R. J., & Lieberman, D. E. (2017). Knee osteoarthritis has doubled in prevalence since the mid-20th century. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 114(35), 9332–9336. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1703856114Wallace, I. J., Lea, A. J., Lim, Y. A. L., Chow, S. K. W., Sayed, I. B. M., Ngui, R., Shaffee, M. T. H., Ng, K. S., Nicholas, C., Venkataraman, V. V., & Kraft, T. S. (2022). Orang Asli Health and Lifeways Project (OA HeLP): a cross-sectional cohort study protocol. BMJ open, 12(9), e058660. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2021-058660------------------------------Contact Dr. Wallace: Website: https://www.ianjwallace.com/; E-mail: iwallace@unm.edu------------------------------Contact the Sausage of Science Podcast and Human Biology Association:Facebook: facebook.com/groups/humanbiologyassociation/, Website: humbio.org, Twitter: @HumBioAssocChris Lynn, Host Website: cdlynn.people.ua.edu/, E-mail: cdlynn@ua.edu, Twitter:@Chris_LyCristina Gildee, Co-host, SoS Co-Producer, HBA Junior FellowWebsite: cristinagildee.org, E-mail: cgildee@uw.edu
Dr. Amato is a biological anthropologist studying the influence of gut microbes on host ecology and evolution. Her research examines how changes in the gut microbiota impact host nutrition, energetics, and health. She uses non-human primates as models for studying host-gut microbe interactions in selective environments and for providing comparative insight into the evolution of the human gut microbiota. Her main foci are understanding how the gut microbiome may buffer hosts during periods of nutritional stress and how the gut microbiome programs normal inter-specific differences in host metabolism. In this realm, she is also interested in global variation in the human gut microbiome and its implications for local human adaptation. Dr. Amato obtained her A.B. in Biology from Dartmouth College and her Ph.D. in Ecology, Evolution and Conservation Biology from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She completed a postdoc at the University of Colorado Boulder. She joined the Department of Anthropology in 2015. She is also affiliated with the Interdisciplinary Biological Sciences Graduate Program and sits on the Executive Committee of the Northwestern Institute on Complex Systems. Dr. Amato is the President of the Midwest Primate Interest Group, an Associate Editor at Microbiome, an Editorial Board member at Folia Primatologica, and a Fellow for the Canadian Institute of Advanced Research’s ‘Humans and the Microbiome’ Program. ------------------------------Find the paper discussed in this episode:Mallott, E., Kuthyar, S., Lee, W., … & Amato, K. R. (2024). The primate gut microbiota contributes to interspecific differences in host metabolism. Microbial genomics, https://doi.org/10.1099/mgen.0.001322 ------------------------------Contact the Sausage of Science Podcast and Human Biology Association:Facebook: facebook.com/groups/humanbiologyassociation/, Website: humbio.org, Twitter: @HumBioAssocChris Lynn, Co-Host. Website: cdlynn.people.ua.edu/, E-mail: cdlynn@ua.edu, Twitter:@Chris_LyCristina Gildee, Guest Co-Host, HBA Junior Fellow, SoS producer. Website: cristinagildee.org, E-mail: cgildee@uw.edu, Twitter:@CristinaGildeeAnahi Ruderman, SoS Co-Producer, HBA Junior Fellow. E-mail: aniruderman@gmail.com, Twitter: @ani_ruderman
Dr. Michael Muehlenbein is a prominent figure in anthropology and biology, currently serving as a professor at Baylor University. His academic journey has been marked by a deep commitment to understanding human evolution, behavior, and health through an interdisciplinary lens. Michael earned an MsPH in both Tropical Medicine and Biostatistics from Tulane University, and an MPhil and PhD in Biological Anthropology from Yale University. His research interests are diverse, encompassing topics such as the evolutionary basis of disease susceptibility, reproductive strategies, and the interplay between environmental factors and human physiology. At Baylor, he has contributed significantly to both teaching and research, mentoring students while also publishing extensively in peer reviewed journals. His work often integrates insights from evolutionary theory with practical applications in public health and medicine, making him a key contributor to discussions on how our evolutionary past shapes contemporary health challenges. Michael is also the Co PI on the NSF-funded project, “Shared markers of identity on inflammation and stress.” ------------------------------Find the papers discussed in this episode:Muehlenbein MP, Gassen J, Nowak TJ, Henderson AD, Weaver SP, Baker EJ. (2023). Waco COVID Survey: A Community-Based SARS-CoV-2 Serological Surveillance Study in Central Texas. J Community Health, 48(1):104-112. doi: 10.1007/s10900-022-01143-y.Muehlenbein M, Gassen J, Nowak T, Henderson A, Morris B, Weaver S, Baker E. (2023). Age-Dependent Relationships Between Disease Risk and Testosterone Levels: Relevance to COVID-19 Disease. Am J Mens Health. doi: 10.1177/15579883221130195.------------------------------Contact Dr. Michael Muehlenbein: Michael_Muehlenbein@baylor.edu------------------------------Contact the Sausage of Science Podcast and Human Biology Association:Facebook: facebook.com/groups/humanbiologyassociation/, Website: humbio.org, Twitter: @HumBioAssocChris Lynn, Co-Host, Website: cdlynn.people.ua.edu, E-mail: cdlynn@ua.edu, Twitter: @Chris_Ly Courtney Manthey, Guest-Co-Host, HBA Junior Fellow , Website: holylaetoli.com/ E-mail: cpierce4@uccs.edu, Twitter: @HolyLaetoliAnahi Ruderman, SoS Co-Producer, HBA Junior Fellow, E-mail: aniruderman@gmail.com, Twitter: @ani_ruderman
Dr Anna Marie Prentiss joins Host Chris Lynn to discuss the origins of institutionalised inequality. Anna is an archaeologist specializing in the ancient history of the Great Plains, Pacific Northwest, and Arctic regions of North America. She has a methodological specialty in lithic technology and theoretical interests in the archaeology of villages and towns, social inequality, hunter-gatherer mobility and technological organization, and the cultural evolutionary process. She is associate editor of the scholarly journal, Current Anthropology.Dr. Prentiss is actively engaged in a long term study of the evolution of complex hunter-gatherer-fisher societies on the interior of British Columbia. The current focus of this research is a multi-year excavation at the Bridge River archaeological site, located near the town of Lillooet, British Columbia. With funding from the National Science Foundation, Dr. Prentiss, along with her students and colleagues conducted major excavations during 2008 and 2009 to examine socio-economic and political changes that occurred during the occupation span of the village. Recent research (2012-2023) at Bridge River has been funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities and the National Science Foundation. ------------------------------Find the paper discussed in this episode:Prentiss, A. M., Foor, T. A., Hampton, A., Walsh, M. J., Denis, M. & Edwards. A. (2023). Emergence of persistent institutionalized inequality at the Bridge River site, British Columbia: the roles of managerial mutualism and coercion. Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci, 14;378(1883). doi: 10.1098/rstb.2022.0304 ------------------------------Contact Dr. Prentiss: anna.prentiss@mso.umt.edu ------------------------------Contact the Sausage of Science Podcast and Human Biology Association:Facebook: facebook.com/groups/humanbiologyassociation/, Website: humbio.org, Twitter: @HumBioAssocChris Lynn, Co-Host Website: cdlynn.people.ua.edu/, E-mail: cdlynn@ua.edu, Twitter:@Chris_LyAnahi Ruderman, SoS Co-Producer, HBA Junior FellowE-mail: aniruderman@gmail.com, Twitter: @@ani_ruderman
Cristina and Anahi chat with Dr. Gonzalo Figueiro about his groundbreaking research in ancient DNA, kinship, and population genetics. Dr. Figueiro is a Professor of Biological Anthropology at the University of the Republic, Uruguay, and holds a PhD in Biological Sciences from the Basic Sciences Development Programme (PEDECIBA), Uruguay. His main research interests are the genetics of ancient and modern human populations and the bioarchaeology of prehistoric populations in Uruguay. He also reflects and writes on the ethics of working with DNA samples and human remains from the past.------------------------------Find the paper discussed in this episode:Figueiro, G. (2024). Simulating the effects of kinship and postmarital residence patterns on mitochondrial DNA diversity in mortuary contexts. American Journal of Biological Anthropology, e24910.------------------------------Contact Gonzalo via email: gonzalo.figueiro@fhce.edu.uy------------------------------Contact the Sausage of Science Podcast and Human Biology Association:Facebook: facebook.com/groups/humanbiologyassociation/, Website: humbio.org, Twitter: @HumBioAssocCristina Gildee, Co-host, SoS Co-Producer, HBA Junior FellowWebsite: cristinagildee.org, E-mail: cgildee@uw.eduAnahi Ruderman, Co-host, SoS Co-Producer, HBA Junior FellowE-mail: aniruderman@gmail.com Twitter:@ani_ruderman
Cristina guest hosts her first episode with special guest Dr. Marina Watowich: an Evolutionary Biologist and current NIH F32 Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Department of Biological Sciences at Vanderbilt University. Dr. Watowich earned her Ph.D. in Biology in 2022 from the University of Washington, where she specialized in Data Science. Her research focuses on how environmental perturbations impact long-term health-related phenotypes and why some individuals are more resilient/susceptible to adverse conditions. To do this, she uses a combination of genomic approaches, computational techniques, and long-term observational data to understand how the environment 'gets under the skin' to result in phenotypic variation. Marina was recently awarded an F32 grant from the National Institutes of Aging to explore the consequences of differential immune investment on molecular aging phenotypes in subsistence-level populations.------------------------------Find the papers discussed in this episode:Watowich, Marina M., et al. "Natural disaster and immunological aging in a nonhuman primate." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 119.8 (2022): e2121663119.Watowich, M. M., Arner, A. M., Wang, S., John, E., Kahumbu, J. C., Kinyua, P., ... & Lea, A. J. (2024). The built environment is more predictive of cardiometabolic health than other aspects of lifestyle in two rapidly transitioning Indigenous populations. medRxiv.------------------------------Contact Marina: website: https://mwatowich.github.io/; email: marina.watowich@vanderbilt.edu ------------------------------Contact the Sausage of Science Podcast and Human Biology Association:Facebook: facebook.com/groups/humanbiologyassociation/, Website: humbio.org, Twitter: @HumBioAssocCristina Gildee, Host, SoS Co-Producer, HBA Junior FellowWebsite: cristinagildee.org, E-mail: cgildee@uw.edu
Maria Florencia Cesani es Licenciada en Antropología y Dra. en Ciencias Naturales por la Universidad Nacional de La Plata. Es investigadora independiente de CONICET y se desempeña como directora del Laboratorio de Investigaciones en Ontogenia y Adaptación (LINOA) de la Facultad de Ciencias Naturales y Museo, de la Universidad Nacional de la Plata, donde también es Profesora de Antropología Biológica. Sus temas de investigación giran en torno al estudio del crecimiento y estado nutricional infantil y adolescente y su relación con factores sociales, económicos y ambientales que los condicionan. Actualmente trabaja en barrios vulnerables localizados en la periferia urbana de La Plata (provincia de Buenos Aires). Maria Florencia Cesani holds a degree in Anthropology and a Ph.D. in Natural Sciences from the National University of La Plata. She is an independent researcher at CONICET and Director of the Laboratory of Research on Ontogeny and Adaptation (LINOA) of the Faculty of Natural Sciences and Museum of the National University of La Plata, where she is also Professor of Biological Anthropology. Her research interests revolve around the study of growth and nutritional status in children and adolescents and their relationship to social, economic, and environmental factors. She is currently working in vulnerable neighborhoods in the urban periphery of La Plata (Buenos Aires Province).Find the paper discussed in this episode:Cesani, M. F., Montero, M. G., & Serrano, M. D. M. (2025). Anthropometric Studies of Schoolchildren During the First Decades of the 20th Century in Spain and Argentina. American journal of human biology, 37(1). https://doi.org/10.1002/ajhb.24183------------------------------Contact Dr. María Florencia Cesani: florcesani@gmail.comFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/florcesani------------------------------Contact the Sausage of Science Podcast and Human Biology Association:Facebook: facebook.com/groups/humanbiologyassociation/, Website: humbio.org, Twitter: @HumBioAssocAnahí Ruderman, Guest Co-Host, SoS Co-Producer, HBA Junior Fellow.E-mail: ruderman@cenpat-conicet.gob.ar. Twitter: @ani_rudermanMiguel Ochoa, Guest Co-HostE-mail: mochoa88@uw.edu, Cristina Gildee, SoS producer, HBA Junior FellowWebsite: cristinagildee.org, E-mail: cgildee@uw.edu, Twitter:@CristinaGildee
Chris Lynn and Courtney Manthey discuss about the role of monkey bars in human development with Dr. Nathaniel J Dominy, an evolutionary biologist and Professor of Anthropology at Dartmouth. He study the behavior, ecology, and functional morphology of humans and nonhuman primates. His research philosophy is to integrate tropical fieldwork with mechanical, molecular, and isotopic analyses in order to better understand how and why adaptive shifts occurred during primate evolution.------------------------------Find the paper discussed in this episode:Luke D Fannin, Zaneta M Thayer, Nathaniel J Dominy. (2024) Commemorating the monkey bars, catalyst of debate at the intersection of human evolutionary biology and public health, Evolution, Medicine, and Public Health, 12(1), 143–155, https://doi.org/10.1093/emph/eoae017------------------------------Contact Dr. Nathaniel J Dominy: Nathaniel.J.Dominy@dartmouth.edu-----------------------------Contact the Sausage of Science Podcast and Human Biology Association:Facebook: facebook.com/groups/humanbiologyassociation/, Website: humbio.org, Twitter: @HumBioAssocChris Lynn, Co-Host Website: cdlynn.people.ua.edu/, E-mail: cdlynn@ua.edu, Twitter:@Chris_LyCourtney Manthey, Guest-Co-Host, Website: holylaetoli.com/ E-mail: cpierce4@uccs.edu, Twitter: @HolyLaetoliAnahi Ruderman, SoS Co-Producer, HBA Junior FellowE-mail: aniruderman@gmail.com
Meredith Aulds is a practicing birth doula, community health worker, and medical anthropologist at Purdue University. As a public health worker and anthropologist, she have had the pleasure to work with both governmental and nonprofit organizations that provide free community resources to pregnant people and their families in Indiana. She is also a senior researcher in the Laboratory for Behavior, Ontogeny, and Reproduction (LABOR) at Purdue, where she have supervised undergraduate research projects in maternal-child health. She have experience in program management, grant writing, community-based programs, and qualitative/quantitative research methods.She is also a devoted dog mom, gardener, and quilting novice. In the future, she would love to become a certified yoga instructor with a focus in prenatal yoga.Find the paper discussed in this episode: Aulds, M. (2024). Prevalence of sacroiliac joint fusion in females and males depending on parity status. American journal of biological anthropology, 184(4), e24951. https://doi.org/10.1002/ajpa.24951Contact Meredith Aulds: maulds@purdue.eduInstagram: @meredith_aulds------------------------------Contact the Sausage of Science Podcast and Human Biology Association:Facebook: facebook.com/groups/humanbiologyassociation/, Website: humbio.org, Twitter: @HumBioAssocChris Lynn, Co-Host Website: cdlynn.people.ua.edu/, E-mail: cdlynn@ua.edu, Twitter:@Chris_LyCourtney Manthey, Guest-Co-Host, Website: holylaetoli.com/ E-mail: cpierce4@uccs.edu, Twitter: @HolyLaetoliAnahi Ruderman, SoS Co-Producer, HBA Junior FellowE-mail: aniruderman@gmail.com
Chris and Courtney sit down with Dr. Thomas Wynn, the Hand Axe Man, AKA: CU Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Anthropology at the University of Colorado. Colorado Springs, where he taught from 1977 until his retirement. Dr. Wynn specializes in the archaeology of the Lower Palaeolithic, led pioneering research in Tanzania, and introduced psychological theory—specifically Piagetian concepts—into Palaeolithic studies, laying the groundwork for evolutionary cognitive archaeology.Dr. Wynn has published over 100 papers and authored key books such as The Rise of Homo Sapiens (2009) and How to Think Like a Neandertal (2012), which he co-authored with Dr. Frederick Coolidge. In 2011, Wynn co-founded the UCCS Center for Cognitive Archaeology, offering online courses on human cognition's evolutionary development. His recent work includes curating First Sculpture, an exhibition on Acheulean handaxes and early aesthetics, which opened at the Nasher Sculpture Center in Dallas in 2018.------------------------------Find the book discussed in this episode:Wynn, Thomas, and Frederick L. Coolidge. How to think like a Neanderthal. Oxford University Press, 2011.------------------------------Contact Dr. Wynn via e-mail: twynn@uccs.edu------------------------------Contact the Sausage of Science Podcast and Human Biology Association:Facebook: facebook.com/groups/humanbiologyassociation/, Website: humbio.org, Twitter: @HumBioAssocChris Lynn, Host Website: cdlynn.people.ua.edu/, E-mail: cdlynn@ua.edu, Twitter:@Chris_LyCourtney Manthey, Guest-Co-Host, Website: holylaetoli.com/ E-mail: cpierce4@uccs.edu, Twitter: @HolyLaetoliCristina Gildee, SoS Co-Producer, HBA Junior FellowWebsite: cristinagildee.org, E-mail: cgildee@uw.edu, Twitter:@CristinaGildee
Listeners, please welcome Courtney Manthey to the show ...as a guest! In this episode, Courtney takes a break from running the HBA social media accounts and being on the elected student committee to talk about her research regarding Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome. Also, the human biology word of the day is: hirsutism.Find the publication discussed in today’s episode via this citation:Manthey, C., Cepon-Robins, T., & Warrener, A. (2024). Hyperandrogenism associated with polycystic ovary syndrome may have a protective effect against fracture risk in female athletes: A pilot study. American journal of human biology : the official journal of the Human Biology Council, 36(8), e24070. https://doi.org/10.1002/ajhb.24070------------------------------------------------------------Courtney Manthey is a PhD student at the University of Montana, where she studies ancient DNA under the guidance of Dr. Meradeth Snow. She is also a Research Affiliate at the University of Colorado Colorado Springs, a Research Collaborator on the Rural Embodiment and Community Health (REACH) project, and Project Manager for the NSF-funded project, “The Effects of Shared Markers of Identity on Inflammation and Stress,” among other initiatives. Courtney’s research interests include reproductive health, maternal-fetal evolutionary genetics, energetics, and women’s diseases. She is the Principal Investigator for the "PCOS in the Pacific" project, which examines the prevalence of polycystic ovary syndrome across the Pacific region through ancient DNA and disease prevalence studies, as well as the "PCOS Patient, Partner, Parent Stigma" project. Additionally, Courtney serves on the research and patient advisory boards of the National Polycystic Ovary Syndrome Association and the PCOS Multidisciplinary Clinic at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus. She is also a Patient Family Partner at the Preeclampsia Foundation and a Junior Service Fellow at the Human Biology Association. In her free time, Courtney is a childbirth doula, specializing in supporting adolescent mothers through the birthing process.------------------------------------------------------------Courtney Manthey, Special Guest, Website: www.HolyLaetoli.com/ E-mail: cpierce4@uccs.eduChris Lynn, HBA Public Relations Committee ChairWebsite: cdlynn.people.ua.edu/, E-mail: cdlynn at ua.edu,Cara Ocobock, Website: sites.nd.edu/cara-ocobock/, Email:cocobock@nd.eduFacebook: www.facebook.com/groups/humanbiologyassociationWebsite: humbio.org/, Instagram: humbioassoc
Chris and Cristina share a bookclub favorite: "The Human DiseaseHow We Create Pandemics, from Our Bodies to Our Beliefs" with author Dr. Sabrina Sholts. Dr. Sholts is a Curator of Biological Anthropology in the Department of Anthropology at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History (NMNH), received her PhD in Anthropology at UC Santa Barbara, and was a postdoctoral researcher at UC Berkeley in the Department of Integrative Biology and the Human Evolution Research Center (HERC) and at Stockholm University in the Department of Biophysics and Biochemistry. Dr. Sholts is also the Director of the Smithsonian Institution Bio-Imaging Research (SIBIR) Center, Lead Curator of the Outbreak: Epidemics in a Connected World exhibition, and a World Economic Forum Young Scientist. Her research uses museum collections to explore intersections of human, animal, and environmental health. ------------------------------Find the book discussed in this episode:Sholts, Sabrina. The Human Disease: How We Create Pandemics, from Our Bodies to Our Beliefs. MIT Press, 2024.------------------------------Contact Dr. Sholts: Website: http://profiles.si.edu/individual/nSholtsS2252014, Twitter: @sabrinasholts E-mail: SholtsS@si.edu ------------------------------Contact the Sausage of Science Podcast and Human Biology Association:Facebook: facebook.com/groups/humanbiologyassociation/, Website: humbio.org, Twitter: @HumBioAssocChris Lynn, Host Website: cdlynn.people.ua.edu/, E-mail: cdlynn@ua.edu, Twitter: @Chris_LyCristina Gildee, Co-host, SoS Co-Producer, HBA Junior FellowWebsite: cristinagildee.org, E-mail: cgildee@uw.edu, Twitter: @CristinaGildee
Co-host Chris Lynn joins Tom Brutsaert to dive deep into spleen variability and how it relates to intense exercise in high altitude populations. Dr. Tom Brutsaert is a professor at the Syracuse University. He has broad interests in how gene and environment interact to produce variation in human athletic ability and health and disease. He conducts field research on high altitude natives in the Andes, with some focus on gas exchange and the control of breathing. He and his collaborators have been using genome-wide approaches to elucidate the genetic basis of variation in specific altitude adaptive traits in several Andean populations, including the Quechua, in Peru, and the Aymara, in Bolivia. Brutsaert also has a laboratory-based program that focuses on how early life (intrauterine) developmental effects influence later-life adult exercise capacity, physical activity, body composition, the response to training, and the future risk for chronic disease.------------------------------Find the paper discussed in this episode:Brutsaert, T. D., Harman, T. S., Bigham, A. W., Kalker, A., Jorgensen, K. C., Zhu, K. T., Steiner, B. C., Hawkins, E., Day, T. A., Kunwar, A. J., Thakur, N., Dhungel, S., Sherpa, N., & Holmström, P. K. (2024). Larger spleens and greater splenic contraction during exercise may be an adaptive characteristic of Nepali Sherpa at high-altitude. American journal of human biology : the official journal of the Human Biology Council, 36(9), e24090. https://doi.org/10.1002/ajhb.24090 ------------------------------Contact Dr. Brutsaert: tdbrutsa@syr.edu------------------------------Contact the Sausage of Science Podcast and Human Biology Association:Facebook: facebook.com/groups/humanbiologyassociation/, Website: humbio.org, Twitter: @HumBioAssocChris Lynn, Co-Host Website: cdlynn.people.ua.edu/, E-mail: cdlynn@ua.edu, Twitter:@Chris_LyAnahi Ruderman, SoS Co-Producer, HBA Junior Fellow. E-mail: aniruderman@gmail.com, Twitter: @ani_ruderman Cristina Gildee, HBA Junior Fellow, SoS producerWebsite: cristinagildee.org, E-mail: cgildee@uw.edu, Twitter:@CristinaGildeeCourtney Manthey, Guest-Co-Host, Website: holylaetoli.com/ E-mail: cpierce4@uccs.edu, Twitter: @HolyLaetoliEric Griffith, Guest Co-Host, HBA Junior FellowE-mail: eric.griffith@duke.eduCara Ocobock, Co-Host, Website: sites.nd.edu/cara-ocobock/, Email:cocobock@nd.edu, Twitter:@CaraOcobock
Co-Hosts Chris Lynn and Anahí Ruderman talk abot how religion impacts fertility and maternal and child health with Dr. John Shaver, a biocultural and evolutionary anthropologist in the Department of Anthropology at Baylor University. Most of his work to date has focused on understanding cultural variation in solutions to collective action and collective resource problems, and how these solutions may impact health and well-being. This research has involved fieldwork in Fiji, The Gambia, Mauritius, New Zealand, and the United States. His work is interdisciplinary and has been published in anthropology, biology, neuroscience, religion, psychology and general science journals. He is a co-editor of Religion, Brain & Behavior, a journal dedicated to the biological study of religion. ------------------------------Find the paper discussed in this episode:Shaver, J. H., Chvaja, R., Spake, L., Hassan, A., Badjie, J., Prentice, A. M., Cerami, C., Sear, R., Shenk, M. K., & Sosis, R. (2024). Religious Involvement Is Associated With Higher Fertility and Lower Maternal Investment, but More Alloparental Support Among Gambian Mothers. American journal of human biology, https://doi.org/10.1002/ajhb.24144 ------------------------------Contact Dr. John Shaver: John_Shaver@baylor.edu------------------------------Contact the Sausage of Science Podcast and Human Biology Association:Facebook: facebook.com/groups/humanbiologyassociation/, Website: humbio.org, Twitter: @HumBioAssocChris Lynn, Co-Host Website: cdlynn.people.ua.edu/, E-mail: cdlynn@ua.edu, Twitter:@Chris_LyAnahi Ruderman, SoS Co-Producer, HBA Junior FellowTwitter: @ani_ruderman, E-mail: aniruderman@gmail.comCourtney Manthey, Co-Host, Website: holylaetoli.com/ E-mail: cpierce4@uccs.edu, Twitter: @HolyLaetoliCristina Gildee, Co-Host, HBA Junior Fellow, SoS producer, Website: cristinagildee.org, E-mail: cgildee@uw.edu, Twitter:@CristinaGildeeCara Ocobock, Co-Host, Website: sites.nd.edu/cara-ocobock/, Email:cocobock@nd.edu, Twitter:@CaraOcobock
Chris and Cristina talk pandemics and welcome back Dr. Taylor Van Doren, a biocultural pandemic researcher investigating social inequalities, demography, and population health during and after pandemic events. As an NSF OPP Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Alaska Anchorage in the Institute of Circumpolar Health Studies, her focus is the demographic, epidemiological, and social consequences of the 1918 influenza pandemic in Alaska with the help of historical vital records, death records, and archival data. Previously, she studied COVID-19 impacts and resilience in rural Southeast Alaska communities, work which she is expanding to include quantitative and qualitative analyses of delayed care and its determinants to understand the indirect population health impacts of COVID-19.------------------------------Find the papers discussed in this episode:Van Doren, T. P. (2024). Sex‐based tuberculosis mortality in Newfoundland, 1900–1949: Implications for populations in transition. American Journal of Human Biology, 36(5), e24033. https://doi.org/10.1002/ajhb.24033Van Doren, T. P., & Brown, R. A. (2023). Consequences of delayed care during the COVID‐19 pandemic: Emerging research and new lines of inquiry for human biologists and anthropologists. American Journal of Human Biology, 35(7), e23886. https://doi.org/10.1002/ajhb.23886------------------------------Contact Dr. Van Doren: Website: taylorvandoren.com, Twitter:@taylor_vandoren E-mail: tmvandoren@alaska.edu------------------------------Contact the Sausage of Science Podcast and Human Biology Association:Facebook: facebook.com/groups/humanbiologyassociation/, Website: humbio.org, Twitter: @HumBioAssocChris Lynn, Host Website: cdlynn.people.ua.edu/, E-mail: cdlynn@ua.edu, Twitter:@Chris_LyCristina Gildee, Co-host, SoS Co-Producer, HBA Junior FellowWebsite: cristinagildee.org, E-mail: cgildee@uw.edu, Twitter:@CristinaGildee
Dr Mansi Srivastava of Harvard University joins Chris and Courtney to talk about her research on regeneration throughout evolution.-----------------------------------------------------------------Dr. Srivastava's research focuses on understanding the evolution of animal development and regeneration. Her group utilizes the three-banded panther worm, Hofstenia miamia, which Dr. Srivastava has developed as a new acoel model system. Acoels represent the sister-group to all animals with bilateral symmetry, which allows the study of genetic mechanisms that span 550 million years of animal evolution. Current projects in her lab range from identifying gene regulatory networks for regeneration to determining the embryonic origins of pluripotent stem cells to understanding the origins of bilaterian nervous systems. Her lab website can be found here:www.srivastavalab.org/The following are citations for the articles mentioned on today’s show:Srivastava M. (2021). Beyond Casual Resemblance: Rigorous Frameworks for Comparing Regeneration Across Species. Annual review of cell and developmental biology, 37, 415–440. https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-cellbio-120319-114716Gehrke, A. R., Neverett, E., Luo, Y. J., Brandt, A., Ricci, L., Hulett, R. E., Gompers, A., Ruby, J. G., Rokhsar, D. S., Reddien, P. W., & Srivastava, M. (2019). Acoel genome reveals the regulatory landscape of whole-body regeneration. Science (New York, N.Y.), 363(6432), eaau6173. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aau6173 Contact the Sausage of Science Podcast and Human Biology Association:Facebook: www.facebook.com/groups/humanbiologyassociationWebsite: humbio.org/, Twitter: @HumBioAssocChris Lynn, HostWebsite: cdlynn.people.ua.edu/, E-mail: cdlynn@ua.edu, Twitter:@Chris_LyCourtney Manthey, Guest-Co-Host, Website: holylaetoli.com/ E-mail: cpierce4@uccs.edu, Twitter: @HolyLaetoliAnahi Ruderman, SoS Co-Producer, HBA Junior FellowE-mail: aniruderman@gmail.com
Our new Co-producer, Anahí Ruderman, is joined by Christopher to co-host this episode with Dr. Luciano Valenzuela. He is a researcher at the National Council for Scientific and Technical Research of Argentina (CONICET). He specializes in the use of stable isotopes in Anthropology, Ecology, and Forensic Science in his research at the School of Social Sciences of the National University of the Center of Buenos Aires. He holds a Ph.D. in Biology from the University of Utah. His interests are very diverse; not only does he research isotopes and their application in forensic cases, but he also has an extensive curriculum in fascinating subjects such as the feeding behavior of whales! Trigger Warning: this episode contains information regarding the identification of human remains.------------------------------Find the paper discussed in this episode:Valenzuela, L. O., Otero, F., Loupias, L. L., Béguelin, M., & Mancuso, R. G. (2023). BITACORA: An isotopic database of modern human tissues (keratin, teeth) for Argentina. Science & Justice, 63(6), 680-688. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scijus.2023.10.003------------------------------Contact Dr. Valenzuela: Website: https://isotoposestables.weebly.com , E-mail: lucianoovalenzuela@gmail.com------------------------------Contact the Sausage of Science Podcast and Human Biology Association:Facebook: facebook.com/groups/humanbiologyassociation/, Website: humbio.org, Twitter: @HumBioAssocChris Lynn, Host Website: cdlynn.people.ua.edu/, E-mail: cdlynn@ua.edu, Twitter:@Chris_LyAnahi Ruderman, Cohost, SoS Co-Producer, HBA Junior FellowE-mail: aniruderman@gmail.comCristina Gildee, SoS Co-Producer, HBA Junior FellowWebsite: cristinagildee.org, E-mail: cgildee@uw.edu, Twitter:@CristinaGildee
Chris checks in with Dr. Adam Johnson to discuss javelinas and their impact on humans. Dr. Johnson is an environmental anthropologist whose current work engages human-animal relations. His current project explores human-javelina relations in Texas, including affective relationships between javelinas and property owners, tourist-javelina encounters at Big Bend National Park, and the intimacy and care that pairs with violence in hunting. Previous research includes social boundary policing in a Drag Queen community in rural North Carolina, time budgeting and allocation in captive chimpanzees (at the North Carolina Zoo), female social relationships in rhesus macaques (Ocala National Forest, Florida), and science, racism, and inequality.------------------------------Contact Dr. Johnson: Website: anthropology365.com, E-mail: adam.johnson@my.utsa.edu------------------------------Contact the Sausage of Science Podcast and Human Biology Association:Facebook: facebook.com/groups/humanbiologyassociation/, Website: humbio.org, Twitter: @HumBioAssocChris Lynn, Host Website: cdlynn.people.ua.edu/, E-mail: cdlynn@ua.edu, Twitter:@Chris_LyCristina Gildee, HBA Junior Fellow, SoS ProducerWebsite: cristinagildee.org, E-mail: cgildee@uw.edu, Twitter:@CristinaGildee
The SoS Team puts one of their own in the hot seat as Courtney and Cristina interview Dr. Christopher Lynn about his book Transcendental Medication: The Evolution of Mind, Culture, and Healing. His book offers a unique perspective on why human brains evolved to have consciousness, yet we spend much of our time trying to reduce our awareness. It outlines how limiting consciousness—rather than expanding it—is more functional and satisfying for most people, most of the time.He suggests that our brains evolved mechanisms to deal with the stress of awareness in concert with awareness itself—otherwise, it is too costly to handle. Defining dissociation as “partitioning of awareness,” Dr. Lynn touches on disparate cultural and psychological practices such as religion, drug use, 12-step programs, and dancing. The chapters draw on biological and cultural studies of Pentecostal speaking in tongues and stress, the results of our 800,000+ years watching hearth and campfires, and unconscious uses of self-deception as a mating strategy, providing practical insights into our daily lives.As a professor of Anthropology at the University of Alabama, Dr. Lynn's research explores critical intersections between culture and health. His work also includes investigating the relationship between tattooing practices, known as tatau, and immune response among Samoans to understand how cultural practices may influence physiological responses. Dr. Lynn is also the executive producer and co-host of the Inking of Immunity podcast.------------------------------Find the book discussed in this episode:Transcendental MedicationLynn, C. D. (2022). Transcendental Medication: The Evolution of Mind, Culture, and Healing. Routledge.------------------------------Contact Dr. Lynn:Website: cdlynn.people.ua.edu/, E-mail: cdlynn@ua.edu, Twitter:@Chris_Ly------------------------------Contact the Sausage of Science Podcast and Human Biology Association:Facebook: facebook.com/groups/humanbiologyassociation/, Website: humbio.org, Twitter: @HumBioAssocCristina Gildee, Guest Co-Host, HBA Junior Fellow, SoS ProducerWebsite: cristinagildee.org, E-mail: cgildee@uw.edu, Twitter:@CristinaGildeeCourtney Manthey, Guest-Co-Host, Website: holylaetoli.com/ E-mail: cpierce4@uccs.edu, Twitter: @HolyLaetoli
From the New York Times Best Selling Authors of “The Genius of Dogs,” Vannessa Woods and Brian Hare, comes “Puppy Kindergarten: The New Science of Raising a Great Dog.”Chris and his trusty co-host Eric unpack “dognition” with Vanessa, a research scientist who runs a “Puppy Kindergarten” at Duke University. She also happens to be an award-winning journalist and author of Bonobo Handshake. Brian is a professor of Evolutionary Anthropology at the Center for Cognitive Neuroscience at Duke, where he founded the Duke Canine Cognition Center. ------------------------------Find the books discussed in this episode:Hare, B., & Woods, V. (2024). Puppy Kindergarten: the new science of raising a great dog. Random House Trade Paperbacks.Hare, B., & Woods, V. (2021). Survival of the friendliest: Understanding our origins and rediscovering our common humanity. Random House Trade Paperbacks.Learn more about Puppy Kindergarten here.------------------------------Contact Vanessa: v.woods@duke.edu------------------------------Contact the Sausage of Science Podcast and Human Biology Association:Facebook: facebook.com/groups/humanbiologyassociation/, Website: humbio.org, Twitter: @HumBioAssocChris Lynn, Co-Host Website: cdlynn.people.ua.edu/, E-mail: cdlynn@ua.edu, Twitter:@Chris_LyEric Griffith, Guest Co-HostE-mail: eric.griffith@duke.eduCristina Gildee, HBA Junior Fellow, SoS ProducerWebsite
Special guest hosts Cristina and Miguel Ochoa unpack the nutritional ecology with Dr. Hugo Azcorra-Pérez, a human biologist at Centro de Investigaciones Silvio Zavala, Universidad Modelo, Mérida, Yucatán, Mexico. He is interested in the biology of populations during the early stages of growth and development and how environmental factors and intergenerational influences shape biological conditions. Born in Yucatán, México, he holds a Master of Sciences in Human Ecology and a Ph.D. in Human Biology (Loughborough University, UK). His research focuses on human growth and its variation according to economic and sociocultural variables. In his Ph.D. work, he assessed how intergenerational factors influence Maya families' development and nutritional status, particularly the phenomenon of nutritional dual-burden (i.e., the coexistence of undernutrition and overweight within the same family or individual). These interests have continued through his current work, which focuses on how the chronic adverse living conditions experienced by Maya populations from Yucatan have impacted their biology and health outcomes. ------------------------------Find the paper discussed in this episode:Azcorra, H., Castillo-Burguete, M. T., Lara-Riegos, J., Salazar-Rendón, J. C., & Mendez-Dominguez, N. (2024). Secular trends in the anthropometric characteristics of children in a rural community in Yucatan, Mexico. American Journal of Human Biology, 36(2), e23995. https://doi.org/10.1002/ajhb.23995------------------------------Contact Dr. Azcorra-Pérez: hugoazpe@hotmail.comTwitter: @AzcorraHugo and on Facebook: facebook.com/hugo.azcorra/------------------------------Contact the Sausage of Science Podcast and Human Biology Association:Facebook: facebook.com/groups/humanbiologyassociation/, Website: humbio.org, Twitter: @HumBioAssocCristina Gildee, Guest Co-Host; HBA Junior Fellow; SoS producerWebsite: cristinagildee.org, E-mail: cgildee@uw.edu, Twitter:@CristinaGildeeMiguel Ochoa, Guest Co-HostE-mail: mochoa88@uw.edu, Twitter:@Miguel_Ochoa88
Chris and Courtney host Claire Gold, a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Anthropology at The University of Massachusetts, Amherst, where she studies the life histories and diet of the women and children from a Medieval Italian population. Claire received her MA in Biological Anthropology from the State University of New York, Binghamton, where she focused on the reproductive correlates of reproductive cancers. Since then, she has raised three children with her husband. In 2019, Claire decided to pursue her PhD at 45 to continue contributing to relevant research on women's and children’s health. She is interested in early life events in modern humans and archaeological populations. Claire is a member of the Society for American Archaeology, the American Association of Biological Anthropologists, the Human Biology Association, the American Investigative Society of Cold Cases, and the International Society for Evolution, Medicine, and Public Health. ------------------------------Find the works discussed in this episode:Gold, C. L., & Bertone‐Johnson, E. (2024). Self‐reported history of breastfeeding in relation to recalled age at menarche in the United States. American Journal of Human Biology, e24067.Gold, C. L., Kitrinos, C. E., Sievert, L. L., & Kamilar, J. M. (2023). Mean age at menarche and climate variables on a global scale. American Journal of Human Biology, 35(12), e23961.------------------------------Contact Claire: cgold@umass.edu------------------------------Contact the Sausage of Science Podcast and Human Biology Association:Facebook: facebook.com/groups/humanbiologyassociation/, Website: humbio.org, Twitter: @HumBioAssocChris Lynn, Co-Host Website: cdlynn.people.ua.edu/, E-mail: cdlynn@ua.edu, Twitter:@Chris_LyCourtney Manthey-Peirce, Guest-Co-Host, Website: holylaetoli.com/ E-mail: cpierce4@uccs.edu, Twitter: @HolyLaetoliCristina Gildee, HBA Junior Fellow, SoS producerWebsite: cristinagildee.org, E-mail: cgildee@uw.edu, Twitter:@CristinaGildee
Chris and Cristina interview Taiye Winful, a PhD Candidate at Vanderbilt University, who studies stress and embodiment in African and other Black populations. Taiye completed her bachelor's degree in Molecular Biology from Loyola University Chicago and MA degree in Anthropology from The University of North Carolina at Charlotte. Taiye’s Master’s thesis was titled “Reconstructing Africa’s Evolutionary Histories: DNA Collection, Coding, Analysis, and Interpretation.” Her thesis focused on generating a comprehensive bio-culturally informed set of African DNA databases that reflected continental and diasporic African genomic diversity. Taiye’s current research interests include genetics, race, health, embodiment, and health disparities. Her dissertation focuses on understanding how life experiences translate into physiological systems via stress in Black populations. She explores the biological mechanisms that connect stress and health, specifically focusing on how social and environmental factors can lead to epigenetic changes in inflammatory-related biomarkers.------------------------------Find the works discussed in this episode:Winful, Taiye, "Bioethics as a Dynamic Issue: Holistic Approaches to Understanding and Applying Ethics to Study Design" (2024). Human Biology Open Access Pre-Prints. 208.https://digitalcommons.wayne.edu/humbiol_preprints/208Winful, T.; Sorunke, M.; Benn Torres, J. “The Impacts of Stress on Salivary CRP Variability in a Nigerian Population” (in prep). ------------------------------Contact Taiye: olawunmi.winful@vanderbilt.eduTwitter: @twinanthro------------------------------Contact the Sausage of Science Podcast and Human Biology Association:Facebook: facebook.com/groups/humanbiologyassociation/, Website: humbio.org, Twitter: @HumBioAssocChris Lynn, Co-Host Website: cdlynn.people.ua.edu/, E-mail: cdlynn@ua.edu, Twitter:@Chris_LyCristina Gildee, Guest Co-Host, HBA Junior Fellow, SoS producerWebsite: cristinagildee.org, E-mail: cgildee@uw.edu, Twitter:@CristinaGildee
How can marmosets inform human birth experiences? Are there really four types of human pelvises? What happens when primates birth litters?Prof. Julienne Rutherford joins Chris and Eric to answer these questions and more!Find the articles discussed on this episode via the following citations:Rutherford, J.N., Ross, C.N., Ziegler, T., Burke, L.A., Steffen, A.D., Sills, A., Layne Colon, D., Demartelly, V.A., Narapareddy, L.R. and Tardif, S.D., 2021. Womb to womb: Maternal litter size and birth weight but not adult characteristics predict early neonatal death of offspring in the common marmoset monkey. Plos one, 16(6), p.e0252093.VanSickle, C., Liese, K.L. and Rutherford, J.N., 2022. Textbook typologies: challenging the myth of the perfect obstetric pelvis. The Anatomical Record, 305(4), pp.952-967.----------------------------------------------------Dr. Julienne Rutherford is Professor and John & Nell Mitchell Endowed Chair for Pediatric Nursing in the University of Arizona College of Nursing. She is a biological anthropologist whose work integrates bioanthropological theory with biomedical science. For 20 years, she has sustained a program of research exploring the intrauterine environment as a biosocial determinant of health. She studies how maternal life history and lived experience shape this earliest developmental setting, and how, in turn, the intrauterine environment influences growth, health, and development across the life course and across generations. ----------------------------------------------------Contact the Sausage of Science Podcast and Human Biology Association:Facebook: www.facebook.com/groups/humanbiologyassociationWebsite: humbio.org/, Twitter: @HumBioAssocChris Lynn, HBA Public Relations Committee ChairWebsite: cdlynn.people.ua.edu/, E-mail: cdlynn at ua.edu, Twitter:@Chris_LyEric Griffith, HBA Junior Fellow, SoS producerE-mail: eric.griffith at duke.edu
Prof. Lesley Gregoricka joins Chris and Eric to explain her work in the field of bioarchaeology. Topics include everything from strontium isotope analysis to the ethics of legacy collections of human remains. Stick around for a diversion to King Cakes and Mardis Gras.The article discussed on this episode can be found via this citation:Gregoricka, L. A. (2023). The ethics of excavating: bioarchaeology and the case for rehabilitating legacy human skeletal collections in the Near East. Levant, 55(3), 294-303.-------------------------------------------------------------Bioarchaeologist Dr. Lesley Gregoricka is a Professor of Anthropology in the Department of Sociology, Anthropology, and Social Work at the University of South Alabama. Her research focuses on prehistoric mortuary practices and the chemistry of ancient human teeth and bones to examine changing patterns of mobility and the evolution of social complexity in Arabia and the broader Middle East. -------------------------------------------------------------Contact the Sausage of Science Podcast and Human Biology Association:Facebook: www.facebook.com/groups/humanbiologyassociationWebsite: humbio.org/, Twitter: @HumBioAssocChris Lynn, HBA Public Relations Committee ChairWebsite: cdlynn.people.ua.edu/, E-mail: cdlynn at ua.edu, Twitter:@Chris_LyEric Griffith, HBA Junior Fellow, SoS producerE-mail: eric.griffith at duke.edu
Chris and Eric catch up with Dr. Melanie Martin, an Associate Professor in the University of Washington Department of Anthropology, whose research examines biocultural influences on health, growth, and development across the life course. In addition to being the Co-PI of the Biodemography Lab at the University of Washington Center for Studies in Demography and Ecology, she conducts field research with two international projects on Indigenous community health and well-being: the Chaco Area Reproductive Ecology Program (Co-Director) and the Tsimane Health and Life History Project (Affiliate). In this episode, Dr. Martin breaks down two of her papers, one looking at COVID-19 transmission in mothers and infants and another examining sleep health in undergraduates before and during the COVID-19 pandemic.------------------------------Find the papers discussed in this episode:Martin MA, Keith M, Pace RM, Williams JE, Ley SH, Barbosa-Leiker C, Caffé B, Smith CB, Kunkle A, Lackey KA, Navarrete AD, Pace CDW, Gogel AC, Eisenberg DTA, Fehrenkamp BD, McGuire MA, McGuire MK, Meehan CL and Brindle E (2022) SARS-CoV-2 specific antibody trajectories in mothers and infants over two months following maternal infection. Front. Immunol. 13:1015002. https://doi.org/10.3389/fimmu.2022.1015002Alicia Rice, Olivia Sather, Kenneth P Wright, Céline Vetter, Melanie A Martin, Horacio O de la Iglesia, COVID-19 stay-at-home restrictions increase the alignment in sleep and light exposure between school days and weekends in university students, Sleep, Volume 46, Issue 7, July 2023, zsad059, https://doi.org/10.1093/sleep/zsad059------------------------------Contact Melanie: martinm7@uw.eduWebsite: https://www.melaniemartin-anthropologist.com/------------------------------Contact the Sausage of Science Podcast and Human Biology Association:Facebook: facebook.com/groups/humanbiologyassociation/, Website: humbio.org, Twitter: @HumBioAssocChris Lynn, Co-Host, Website: cdlynn.people.ua.edu/, E-mail: cdlynn@ua.edu, Twitter:@Chris_LyEric Griffith, Guest Co-Host, HBA Junior FellowE-mail: eric.griffith@duke.eduCristina Gildee, HBA Junior Fellow, SoS producerWebsite: cristinagildee.org, E-mail: cgildee@uw.edu, Twitter:@CristinaGildee
Listeners, please welcome Prof. Ben Trumble to the show! Prof. Trumble joins us to talk about his fascinating research on how oral health can affect cardiovascular disease risk and cognitive health later in life.Find the publication discussed in today’s episode via this citation:Benjamin C Trumble, Matthew Schwartz, Andrew T Ozga, Gary T Schwartz, Christopher M Stojanowski, Carrie L Jenkins, Thomas S Kraft, Angela R Garcia, Daniel K Cummings, Paul L Hooper, Daniel Eid Rodriguez, Kenneth Buetow, Bret Beheim, Andrei Irimia, Gregory S Thomas, Randall C Thompson, HORUS Team, Margaret Gatz, Jonathan Stieglitz, Caleb E Finch, Michael Gurven, Hillard Kaplan.Poor oral health is associated with inflammation, aortic valve calcification, and brain volume among forager-farmers, The Journals of Gerontology: Series A, 2024;, glae013, https://doi-org.proxy.lib.duke.edu/10.1093/gerona/glae013------------------------------------------------------------Benjamin Trumble is an associate professor in the School of Human Evolution and Social Change and the Center for Evolution and Medicine and the Institute of Human Origins.His work focuses on chronic diseases of aging, working to understand how environmental conditions like parasites, pathogens, food availability, and social interactions impact human health. Taking an evolutionary life history perspective, he uses field and laboratory studies to understand variation in human endocrine systems, and how this influences chronic health conditions like benign prostatic hyperplasia, cardiovascular disease, and Alzheimer’s dementia.Prof. Trumble's website can be found here: https://trumblelab.org/-----------------------------------------------------------Contact the Sausage of Science Podcast and Human Biology Association:Facebook: www.facebook.com/groups/humanbiologyassociationWebsite: humbio.org/, Twitter: @HumBioAssocCourtney Manthey-Pierce, Co-Host, Website: courtneymanthey-pierce.godaddysites.com/ E-mail: cpierce4@uccs.edu, Twitter: @HolyLaetoliAlex Niclou, special returning Co-HostEric Griffith, HBA Junior Fellow, SoS producerE-mail: eric.griffith at duke.edu
Cara and guest co-host Cristina sit down with Dr. Chris Kuzawa, the John D. MacArthur Professor & Faculty Fellow at the Institute for Policy Research at Northwestern University. He uses principles from anthropology and evolutionary biology to gain insights into the biological and health impacts of human developmental plasticity. His primary field research is conducted in Cebu, the Philippines, where he and his colleagues work with a large birth cohort study that enrolled more than 3,000 pregnant women in 1983 and has since followed their offspring into adulthood (now 30 years old). They use the nearly 3 decades of data available for each study participant, and recruitment of generation 3 (the grand offspring of the original mothers), to gain a better understanding of the long-term and intergenerational impacts of early life environments on adult biology, life history, reproduction, and health. A theme of much of his work is the application of principles of developmental plasticity and evolutionary biology to issues of health. ------------------------------Contact Chris: kuzawa@northwestern.eduWebsite: https://sites.northwestern.edu/kuzawa/; Twitter:@ChrisKuzawa------------------------------Contact the Sausage of Science Podcast and Human Biology Association:Facebook: facebook.com/groups/humanbiologyassociation/, Website: humbio.org, Twitter: @HumBioAssocCara Ocobock, HBA Public Relations Committee Chair,Cara Ocobock, Co-Host, Website: sites.nd.edu/cara-ocobock/, Email:cocobock@nd.edu, Twitter: @CaraOcobockCristina Gildee, HBA Junior Fellow, SoS producerWebsite: cristinagildee.org, E-mail: cgildee@uw.edu, Twitter: @CristinaGildee
Listeners, please welcome Dr. Eric Griffith to the show ...as a guest! In this episode, Eric takes a break from producing to talk about his research regarding human variation in dementia. Find the publication discussed in today’s episode via this citation:Griffith EE. (2023). “Recruiting Participants for Dementia Research Without Saying ‘Dementia’: A Site Study in Central Mexico.” In: Anthropological Perspectives on Aging, BM Howell & RP Harrod eds., University of Press of Florida.------------------------------------------------------------Dr. Eric Griffith received his Ph.D. in anthropology from the University of Massachusetts Amherst, as well as an MA in psychology from Boston University. He completed his dissertation fieldwork in central Mexico, focusing on the experiences of familial caregivers for people living with Alzheimer’s disease. Eric’s research interests include biocultural anthropology, dementia, cognitive aging, health disparities, and mixed methods research. Eric is currently a T32 postdoc at the Duke University Center for the Study of Aging and Human development. He also worked as a postdoctoral fellow with the Samuel DuBois Cook Center at Duke University on the project “The influence of religion/spirituality on Alzheimer’s Disease and its related dementias (ADRD) for African Americans."-----------------------------------------------------------Contact the Sausage of Science Podcast and Human Biology Association:Facebook: www.facebook.com/groups/humanbiologyassociationWebsite: humbio.org/, Twitter: @HumBioAssocChris Lynn, HBA Public Relations Committee ChairWebsite: cdlynn.people.ua.edu/, E-mail: cdlynn at ua.edu, Twitter:@Chris_LyEric Griffith, HBA Junior Fellow, SoS producerE-mail: eric.griffith at duke.edu
Listeners, please welcome Dr. Sheina Lew-Levy to the show! In this episode Prof. Lew-Levy discusses the importance of social learning among children to the study of evolution. Stick around for some gardening tips!Find the publication discussed in today’s episode via these citations:Pretelli, Ilaria, Alyssa N. Crittenden, Edmond Dounias, Sagan Friant, Jeremy Koster, Karen L. Kramer, Shani M. Mangola, Almudena Mari Saez, and Sheina Lew‐Levy. "Child and adolescent foraging: New directions in evolutionary research." Evolutionary Anthropology: Issues, News, and Reviews (2023): e22020.Lew‐Levy, Sheina, Wouter van den Bos, Kathleen Corriveau, Natália Dutra, Emma Flynn, Eoin O'Sullivan, Sarah Pope‐Caldwell et al. "Peer learning and cultural evolution." Child Development Perspectives (2023).------------------------------------------------------------Using methods from anthropology and psychology, Prof. Lew-Levy conducts research in hunter-gatherer societies to understand the cultural diversity in, and evolution of, social learning in childhood. Specifically, Prof. Lew-Levy uses quantitative and qualitative methods to study how and from whom children learn through meaningful participation in every day activities. With Forager Child Studies, her interdisciplinary research team conducts cross-cultural reviews and secondary data analysis on the pasts, presents, and futures of forager children's learning.Since 2016, Prof. Lew-Levy has worked with egalitarian BaYaka foragers and their farmer neighbours in the Congo Basin. Her primary research uses behavioural observations to understand social learning.She can be contacted via e-mail: sheina.lew-levy at durham.ac.uk -----------------------------------------------------------Contact the Sausage of Science Podcast and Human Biology Association:Facebook: www.facebook.com/groups/humanbiologyassociationWebsite: humbio.org/, Twitter: @HumBioAssocChris Lynn, HBA Public Relations Committee ChairWebsite: cdlynn.people.ua.edu/, E-mail: cdlynn at ua.edu, Twitter:@Chris_LyEric Griffith, HBA Junior Fellow, SoS producerE-mail: eric.griffith at duke.edu
Special Edition HBA Fellow take-over! HBA Junior Fellows Eric Griffith and Courtney Manthey-Pierce co-host this season's final episode with Dr. Meradeth Snow. Dr. Snow is an Associate Professor and Co-Chair of Anthropology at the University of Montana. There, she and her research team analyze ancient and degraded DNA for anthropological and forensic purposes. Her lab focuses primarily on the northern region of prehistoric Mexico. She is here to talk to us today about her most recent paper (currently in review) titled “A Reanalysis of Population Dynamics in the Casas Grandes Region of Northern Mexico Using Mitochondrial DNA.”------------------------------Contact Meradeth: meradeth.snow@umontana.eduWebsite: meradethhouston.com; Twitter: @MeradethHouston------------------------------Contact the Sausage of Science Podcast and Human Biology Association:Facebook: facebook.com/groups/humanbiologyassociation/, Website: humbio.org, Twitter: @HumBioAssocCourtney Manthey-Pierce, Guest-Co-Host, Website: courtneymanthey-pierce.godaddysites.com/ E-mail: cpierce4@uccs.edu, Twitter: @HolyLaetoliEric Griffith, Guest Co-Host, HBA Junior FellowE-mail: eric.griffith@duke.eduCristina Gildee, HBA Junior Fellow, SoS producerWebsite: cristinagildee.org, E-mail: cgildee@uw.edu, Twitter:@CristinaGildee
Cara is solo hosting this episode! She is joined by Dr. Charles Roseman to discuss the finer points of why/how "adaptionist" thinking can lead us all down scientific dead ends. Bonus fun: We also learn a little bit about squirrels and nicotine withdrawal. You know Chris was sorry to miss this episode!****The Scientific American article "To Understand Sex, We Need to Ask the Right Questions," co-authored by Profs. Roseman and Ocobock can be found here:https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/to-understand-sex-we-need-to-ask-the-right-questions/Dr. Roseman's video demonstration will be uploaded to the HBA youtube page soon:https://www.youtube.com/@HumanBiologyAssociation****Dr. Roseman is an Associate Professor in Evolution, Ecology and Behavior and Anthropology in the School of Integrative Biology at the University of Illinois. His work broadly focuses on genotype phenotype map structure, and the evolution of complex traits. You can view his website here: sib.illinois.edu/profile/croseman and follow him on Twitter @EvoRoseman.*******Contact the Sausage of Science Podcast and Human Biology Association:Facebook: www.facebook.com/groups/humanbiologyassociationWebsite: humbio.org/,Twitter: @HumBioAssocCara Ocobock, Co-Host, Website: sites.nd.edu/cara-ocobock/, Email:cocobock@nd.edu, Twitter:@CaraOcobockEric Griffith, HBA Junior Fellow, SoS producerE-mail: eric.griffith@duke.edu
Chris and special guest co-host Courtney Manthey-Peirce interview Dimitris Xygalatas, author of Ritual: How Seemingly Senseless Acts Make Life Worth Living. Associate Professor in Anthropology and Psychological Sciences at the University of Connecticut and head of the Experimental Anthropology Lab, Dimitris is an anthropologist and cognitive scientist who studies some things that make us human – but not the obvious ones. He is interested in some of the more peculiar aspects of human nature: ritual, music, sports fanship, and other things that help people connect, cope, and live meaningful lives. Dimitris’ research combines experimental methods with ethnographic fieldwork to study human culture holistically over the last several years in Southern Europe and Mauritius.------------------------------Contact Dimitris: xygalatas@uconn.eduWebsite: xygalatas.com; Twitter: @xygalatas------------------------------Contact the Sausage of Science Podcast and Human Biology Association:Facebook: facebook.com/groups/humanbiologyassociation/, Website: humbio.org, Twitter: @HumBioAssocChris Lynn, HBA Public Relations Committee Chair,Website: cdlynn.people.ua.edu/, E-mail: cdlynn@ua.edu, Twitter:@Chris_LyCourtney Manthey-Peirce, Guest-Co-Host, Website: courtneymanthey-pierce.godaddysites.com/ E-mail: cpierce4@uccs.edu, Twitter: @HolyLaetoliCristina Gildee, SoS producerWebsite: cristinagildee.org, E-mail: cgildee@uw.edu, Twitter:@CristinaGildee
Listeners, please welcome Ed Hagen to the show! In this episode Prof. Hagen discusses his research on self medication and parasites.Prof. Hagen joins our regular host, Prof. Chris Lynn, as well as returning guest host Cristina Gildee.Find the publication discussed in today’s episode via this citation:Hagen, E. H., Blackwell, A. D., Lightner, A. D., & Sullivan, R. J. (2023). Homo medicus: The transition to meat eating increased pathogen pressure and the use of pharmacological plants in Homo. American Journal of Biological Anthropology, 180(4), 589-617.------------------------------------------------------------Prof. Hagen investigates tobacco use in the larger context of human use of plant secondary compounds. He investigates depression, suicide, and deliberate self-harm as potential signaling strategies. Child growth and development is a research theme that grew out of his work on postpartum depression. Prof. Hagen also recently begun testing evolutionary models of leadership and knowledge specialization as part of my more general interest in the evolution of human social organization. Finally, he has published a number of theoretical papers on evolutionary approaches to ontogeny, cognition, and behavior.Blog: https://grasshoppermouse.github.ioTwitter: @ed_hagenEmail: edhagen@wsu.edu-----------------------------------------------------------Contact the Sausage of Science Podcast and Human Biology Association:Facebook: www.facebook.com/groups/humanbiologyassociationWebsite: humbio.org/, Twitter: @HumBioAssocChris Lynn, HBA Public Relations Committee ChairWebsite: cdlynn.people.ua.edu/, E-mail: cdlynn@ua.edu, Twitter:@Chris_LyCristina Gildee, SoS producer, SoS Guest Host:Website: cristinagildee.org, E-mail: cgildee@uw.edu, Twitter:@CristinaGildeeEric Griffith, HBA Junior Fellow, SoS producerE-mail: eric.griffith@duke.edu
Listeners, please welcome Achsah Dorsey to the show! In this episode Prof. Dorsey discusses her research on childhood anemia in Peru and casually tosses in an excellent airplane turbulence metaphor to describe human physiology. Stick around for the ABBA shout-out.Prof. Dorsey joins our regular host, Prof. Chris Lynn, as well as returning guest host Prof. Theresa Gildner. Find the publication discussed in today’s episode via this citation:Dorsey, A. (2023). Biological and Ecological Impacts on Recovery from Anemia Among Peri-Urban Peruvian Children. In Human Growth and Nutrition in Latin American and Caribbean Countries (pp. 397-419). Cham: Springer International Publishing.------------------------------------------------------------Prof. Achsah Dorsey’s research utilizes life-history and evolutionary medicine perspectives to investigate the relationships between immune activation, body size and growth, and nutritional status in women and children. Her recent research explores the biological, environmental, and cultural links between anemia and infection, the gut microbiome, and home environment in families living in peri-urban communities within Lima, Peru.She can be contacted via e-mail: adorsey@umass.edu-----------------------------------------------------------Contact the Sausage of Science Podcast and Human Biology Association:Facebook: www.facebook.com/groups/humanbiologyassociationWebsite: humbio.org/, Twitter: @HumBioAssocChris Lynn, HBA Public Relations Committee ChairWebsite: cdlynn.people.ua.edu/, E-mail: cdlynn@ua.edu, Twitter:@Chris_LyTheresa Gildner, HBA Fellow, SoS Guest HostE-mail: gildner@wustl.eduEric Griffith, HBA Junior Fellow, SoS producerE-mail: eric.griffith@duke.edu
This week, Chris and guest co-host Cristina catch up with Georgia Scott, a master's student studying bioarchaeology at the University of Nevada, Reno. Her research interests focus on mortuary practices and treatment of the deceased, both past and present. Georgia received her Bachelor of Science in Anthropology from Montana State University and has a background in vertebrate paleontology, zooarchaeology, and museum studies. She is passionate about collaborative methodologies and improving engagement with descendant communities. Her most recent work explores the ethical considerations in bioarchaeological research and publications regarding the use and treatment of human remains. ------------------------------Contact Georgia: georgiascott@nevada.unr.edu------------------------------Contact the Sausage of Science Podcast and Human Biology Association:Facebook: facebook.com/groups/humanbiologyassociation/, Website: humbio.org, Twitter: @HumBioAssocChris Lynn, HBA Public Relations Committee Chair,Website: cdlynn.people.ua.edu/, E-mail: cdlynn@ua.edu, Twitter: @Chris_LyCristina Gildee, SoS producer and guest co-hostWebsite: cristinagildee.org, E-mail: cgildee@uw.edu, Twitter: @CristinaGildee
Chris and Cristina sit down with Dr. Molly Fox, Associate Professor of Anthropology and of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences at UCLA. She studies the evolutionary context of chronic disease and the biosocial relationships between grandmothers, mothers, and children.Her current research projects investigate (1) the biological embedding of immigration and acculturation experiences in Mexican-American women and how this process influences aspects of gestational physiology that are implicated in shaping fetal developmental trajectories, thereby affecting health across generations; (2) psychobiological profiles of postpartum depression risk, etiology, and manifestation; (3) how the human newborn intestinal ecology (microbiome) affects infant cognitive and emotional development, with implications for vulnerability to mental illness; (4) how gestational and lactational (pregnancy and breastfeeding) physiology impose long-term alterations to biophysiology in ways that affect later-life risk of Alzheimer’s and other geriatric disease.Find the work discussed in today’s episode here: Molly Fox, Delaney A. Knorr, Dayoon Kwon, Kyle S. Wiley, Michael H. Parrish. “How prenatal cortisol levels relate to grandmother-mother relationships among a cohort of Latina women.” American Journal of Human Biology. (2023) https://doi.org/10.1002/ajhb.23883Molly Fox (2022) How demographics and concerns about the Trump administration relate to prenatal mental health among Latina women. Social Science and Medicine. doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2022.115171------------------------------Contact Molly: mollyfox@ucla.edu; website: mollyfox.mystrikingly.com/ Twitter: @mollymfox------------------------------Contact the Sausage of Science Podcast and Human Biology Association:Facebook: facebook.com/groups/humanbiologyassociation/, Website: humbio.org, Twitter: @HumBioAssocChris Lynn, HBA Public Relations Committee Chair,Website: cdlynn.people.ua.edu/, E-mail: cdlynn@ua.edu, Twitter:@Chris_LyCristina Gildee, SoS producer:Website: cristinagildee.org, E-mail: cgildee@uw.edu, Twitter:@CristinaGildee
Dee Jolly, PhD student in anthropology at the University of Oregon, joins Cara and Courtney to discuss how stigma affects the health of trans and gender diverse people.Dee is currently a 2nd year PhD student, working with Prof. Zachary DuBois. They finished their undergraduate studies at the University of Florida in 2016 and then earned a Master's degree in Medical Anthropology and Cross-Cultural Practice from Boston University in 2018. Contact the Sausage of Science Podcast and Human Biology Association:Facebook: www.facebook.com/groups/humanbiologyassociationWebsite: humbio.org/, Twitter: @HumBioAssocCara Ocobock, Co-Host, Website: sites.nd.edu/cara-ocobock/, Email:cocobock@nd.edu, Twitter:@CaraOcobockCourtney Manthey-Pierce, HBA webmaster, SoS co-hostWebsite: courtneymanthey-pierce.godaddysites.com/Eric Griffith, HBA Junior Fellow, SoS producerE-mail: eric.griffith@duke.edu
Cara and Chris chat with Dr. Rob Tennyson, a Postdoctoral scholar in the Department of Biobehavioral Health at Penn State University and a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Sociology Department at the University of Utah, who received his PhD in Biological Anthropology from the University of Washington in 2022. His research focuses on psychosocial stress, aging, and student-athlete mental health and well-being. His research program leverages diversity within and between populations to tease apart how differences in social environments, physical environments, and behavior influence human biological aging, connecting lived experiences to molecular, immunological, and demographic processes.Find the work discussed in today’s episode here: Analyzing COVID-19 Related Disruptions and Psychosocial Stress in Collegiate Student-Athletes https://osf.io/25f4h/'Legs Feed the Wolf': An Evolutionary Perspective on Psychosocial Stress, Physical Activity, and Telomere Length in NCAA Student-Athletes https://osf.io/s2cuj/------------------------------Contact Rob: robtennyson@gmail.com; website: robtennyson.org Twitter: @RobTennyson_PhD------------------------------Contact the Sausage of Science Podcast and Human Biology Association:Facebook: facebook.com/groups/humanbiologyassociation/, Website: humbio.org, Twitter: @HumBioAssocCara Ocobock, Co-Host, Website: sites.nd.edu/cara-ocobock/, Email:cocobock@nd.edu, Twitter:@CaraOcobockChris Lynn, HBA Public Relations Committee Chair,Website: cdlynn.people.ua.edu/, E-mail: cdlynn@ua.edu, Twitter:@Chris_LyCristina Gildee, SoS producer:Website: cristinagildee.org, E-mail: cgildee@uw.edu, Twitter:@CristinaGildee
Welcome to Bizarro World, Sausage of Science listeners! Cara is on the show today ...as a guest! She is joined by Sarah Lacy to discuss their recent American Anthropologist articles "Woman the hunter: The physiological evidence" and "Woman the hunter: The archaeological evidence."Also, please welcome guest host, and HBA webmaster, Courtney Manthey-Pierce.Find the publications discussed in today’s episode here:Ocobock, C., & Lacy, S. (2023). Woman the hunter: The physiological evidence. American Anthropologist. https://doi.org/10.1111/aman.13915Lacy, S., & Ocobock, C. (2023). Woman the hunter: The archaeological evidence. American Anthropologist. https://doi.org/10.1111/aman.13914And here is a link to their article in the Nov. 2023 issue of Scientific American:https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-theory-that-men-evolved-to-hunt-and-women-evolved-to-gather-is-wrong/------------------------------------------------------------Sarah A. Lacy is a biological anthropologist specializing in paleoanthropology and bioarchaeology. She received a BS in anthropology from Tulane University in 2008 and a PhD in anthropology from Washington University in St. Louis in 2014. She taught at the University of Missouri, St. Louis and at California State University, Dominguez Hills (Los Angeles) before joining the faculty at the University of Delaware in 2023.Prof. Lacy explores dental cavities, periodontal disease, and tooth loss in Neandertals and early modern humans across Europe and Southwest Asia and given the prevalence among recent humans. More than just oral health, she looks at how oral diseases also reveal information about diet, environment, disease susceptibility, and overall health in individuals and populations. Her website can be found here:https://www.anthropology.udel.edu/people/salacy------------------------------------------------------------Dr. Cara Ocobock is the Director of the Human Energetics Laboratory at Notre Dame. Her research program integrates human biology and anthropology, with a focus on the interaction between anatomy, physiology, evolution, and the environment. She explores the physiological and behavioral mechanisms necessary to cope with and adapt to extreme climate and physical activity. Ocobock works in northern Finland, in collaboration with researchers from the University of Lapland and University of Oulu. Prof. Ocobock is also an avid powerlifter and loves to bring anthropology to sport. She has worked with hockey players at the collegiate and semi-professional level as well as collegiate track and field athletes.Her website can be found here:https://anthropology.nd.edu/people/faculty/cara-ocobock/-----------------------------------------------------------Contact the Sausage of Science Podcast and Human Biology Association:Facebook: www.facebook.com/groups/humanbiologyassociationWebsite: humbio.org/, Twitter: @HumBioAssocChris Lynn, HBA Public Relations Committee Chair,Website: cdlynn.people.ua.edu/, E-mail: cdlynn@ua.edu, Twitter:@Chris_LyCourtney Manthey-Pierce, HBA webmaster, SoS co-hostWebsite: https://courtneymanthey-pierce.godaddysites.com/Eric Griffith, HBA Junior Fellow, SoS producerE-mail: eric.griffith@duke.edu
Twice the Caras! Cara and Cristina interview Dr. Cara Wall-Scheffler, professor and co-chair of Biology at Seattle Pacific University and an affiliate professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Washington. Her research focuses on the evolution of human sexual dimorphism, particularly in the context of balancing the pressures of thermoregulation and long-distance locomotion. She has been working on this problem for over 20 years. Her work demonstrates that different selection pressures have acted on men and women and that women, in particular, have a rare (among mammals) ability to work both efficiently (energy per unit of mass) and economically (total energy) when carrying loads. Women’s abilities are partly due to their relatively small body size, relatively high surface area, relatively broader pelves, and unique methods of thermoregulation. In addition to her research, Dr. Wall-Scheffler teaches courses in human physiology and evolutionary mechanisms on campus and at the Blakely Island Field Station.Find the publications discussed in today’s episode here: Anderson A, Chilczuk S, Nelson K, Ruther R, Wall-Scheffler C (2023) The Myth of Man the Hunter: Women’s contribution to the hunt across ethnographic contexts. PLoS ONE 18(6): e0287101. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0287101Wall‐Scheffler, C. and H. Kurki, Beyond sex, gender, and other dilemmas: Human pelvic morphology from an integrative context. Evolutionary Anthropology. 2023;1‐13. https://doi.org/10.1002/evan.22001Wall-Scheffler CM (2022). Women carry for less: body size, pelvis width, loading position and energetics. Evolutionary Human Sciences 4, e36, 1–17. https://doi.org/10.1017/ehs.2022.35------------------------------Cara Wall-Scheffler’s email: cwallsch@spu.edu, Twitter: @WallScheffler------------------------------Contact the Sausage of Science Podcast and Human Biology Association:Facebook: facebook.com/groups/humanbiologyassociation/, Website: humbio.org, Twitter: @HumBioAssocCara Ocobock, Co-Host, Website: sites.nd.edu/cara-ocobock/, Email:cocobock@nd.edu, Twitter:@CaraOcobockCristina Gildee, SoS producer:Website: cristinagildee.org, E-mail: cgildee@uw.edu, Twitter:@CristinaGildee
Prof. Liz Mallott of Washington University in St. Louis joins Chris and Cristina to talk about her research on the human microbiome.-----------------------------------------------------------------Dr. Liz Mallott is an assistant professor of Biology at Washington University in St. Louis. Professor Mallott’s research examines how social and environmental determinants of health shape variation in the human microbiome. Current projects examine how exposure to environmental pollutants, which disproportionately impact racial and ethnic minorities in the United States, influences the gut microbiome and cardiovascular disease risk.Her lab website can be found here:https://mallott-lab.github.io/The following are citations for the articles mentioned on today’s show:Mallott, E. K., Sitarik, A. R., Leve, L. D., Cioffi, C., Camargo Jr, C. A., Hasegawa, K., & Bordenstein, S. R. (2023). Human microbiome variation associated with race and ethnicity emerges as early as 3 months of age. PLoS biology, 21(8), e3002230.Cepon‐Robins, T. J., Mallott, E. K., Recca, I. C., & Gildner, T. E. (2023). Evidence and potential drivers of neglected parasitic helminth and protist infections among a small preliminary sample of children from rural Mississippi. American Journal of Human Biology, e23889.Chioma, O. S., Mallott, E., Shah-Gandhi, B., Wiggins, Z., Langford, M., Lancaster, A. W., ... & Drake, W. P. (2023). Low Gut Microbial Diversity Augments Estrogen-Driven Pulmonary Fibrosis in Female-Predominant Interstitial Lung Disease. Cells, 12(5), 766.Contact the Sausage of Science Podcast and Human Biology Association:Facebook: www.facebook.com/groups/humanbiologyassociationWebsite: humbio.org/, Twitter: @HumBioAssocChris Lynn, HBA Public Relations Committee Chair,Website: cdlynn.people.ua.edu/, E-mail: cdlynn@ua.edu, Twitter:@Chris_LyCristina Gildee, SoS Co-Host and ProducerE-mail: cgildee@uw.edu, Twitter:@CristinaGildeeEric Griffith, HBA Junior Fellow, SoS producerE-mail: eric.griffith@duke.edu
Season 6 premiere. Cara’s back! Chris and Cara chat with Dr. Saige Kelmelis, a biological anthropologist specializing in bioarchaeology, paleodemography, paleoepidemiology, and forensic anthropology. Her research involves the study of human skeletal and dental remains to reconstruct aspects of life, health, disease, identity, and demography. She integrates methods and theory in osteology, paleodemography, epidemiology, and hazard analyses to explore the interplay between human biocultural behavior and infectious disease. She also uses methods from bioarchaeology to reconstruct life histories and health outcomes in modern and past populations through cementochronology. Kelmelis is also a primary investigator on a collaborative project with other professionals, students, and tattoo artists in South Dakota to understand how this ancient practice of body modification affects health outcomes in modern people. Current and ongoing research includes the exploration of mortality risk and disease in monastic, urban, and rural medieval Denmark, the application of cementochronology to reconstruct modern human life histories in Bangladesh, paleodemographic and life history reconstruction of the ancient Maya in the Upper Belize Valley, advancing statistical models in paleodemography, and the short- and long-term impacts of tattooing and body modification on health in past and present populations.Find the publications discussed in today’s episode here: Kelmelis, S., & DeWitte, S. N. (2021). Urban and rural survivorship in Pre- and Post-Black Death Denmark. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, 38, 103089. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jasrep.2021.103089van Doren, T. P., & Kelmelis, S. (2023). Contextualizing pandemics: Respiratory survivorship before, during, and after the 1918 influenza pandemic in Newfoundland. American Journal of Biological Anthropology, 181(1), 70–84. https://doi-org.offcampus.lib.washington.edu/10.1002/ajpa.24678------------------------------Saige’s email: Saige.Kelmelis@usd.edu------------------------------Contact the Sausage of Science Podcast and Human Biology Association:Facebook: www.facebook.com/groups/humanbiologyassociationWebsite: humbio.org/, Twitter: @HumBioAssocCara Ocobock, Website: sites.nd.edu/cara-ocobock/, Email:cocobock@nd.edu, Twitter: @CaraOcobockChris Lynn, HBA Public Relations Committee Chair, Website: cdlynn.people.ua.edu/, email: cdlynn@ua.edu, Twitter: @Chris_LyCristina Gildee, HBA Junior Fellow, SoS producer:E-mail: cgildee@uw.eduTwitter: @CristinaGildee
The show is currently on summer hiatus as most of our staff work on their research.
New episodes will be back in the fall.
In the meantime, we have a special bonus episode of the podcast. Prof. Joseph L. Graves Jr. of North Carolina A&T University reads an excerpt from his book A Voice in the Wilderness: A Pioneering Biologist Explains How Evolution Can Help Us Solve Our Biggest Problems.
Here's a link to the Barnes and Noble page for the book: https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/a-voice-in-the-wilderness-professor-joseph-l-graves-jr-phd/1140835416
Prof. Graves's faculty page: https://www.ncat.edu/employee-bio.php?directoryID=113858234
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Anwesha Pan joins Chris and Mallika to talk about her work on famine and fecundability in Bangladesh as well as the connection between neighborhood-level family poverty and ovarian reserve.
This is the season finale -- please check back in the fall for new content! Thank you to Mallika for filling in as co-host this season!
Anwesha Pan is a PhD candidate at the University of Washington and can be reached by e-mail at: anweshap@uw.edu
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Chris welcomes guest co-host, Cristina Gildee, to chat with Sofiya Shreyer, a Ph.D. student in the Anthropology Department at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Sofiya is passionate about increasing research and education on menopause and other understudied women's health issues, such as PCOS, endometriosis, and sexual wellness. Under the guidance of Dr. Lynnette Sievert, she studies grandmotherhood, variation in caretaking behaviors, and the impact of child-rearing on both grandmaternal and children’s health and well-being. With the outbreak of war in Ukraine, Sofiya’s work toggled to focus on the study of menopause, where she manages and coordinates an ongoing multi-year study on hot flash experiences and brown adipose tissue in perimenopausal and menopausal women. Find her recent book chapter, “Aging and Childcare: A Biocultural Approach to Grandmothering in Ukraine” published in Anthropological Perspectives on Aging here: https://upf.com/book.asp?id=9780813069593------------------------------Sofiya’s email: sshreyer@umass.eduTwitter: @sofiya_shreyer------------------------------Contact the Sausage of Science Podcast and Human Biology Association:Facebook: www.facebook.com/groups/humanbiologyassociationWebsite: humbio.org/, Twitter: @HumBioAssocChris Lynn, HBA Public Relations Committee Chair, Website: cdlynn.people.ua.edu/, email: cdlynn@ua.edu, Twitter:@Chris_Ly
Chris and Mallika sit down with Sean Prall, an Assistant Professor and evolutionary anthropologist at the University of Missouri. His interests center on human health and reproduction, reproductive decision-making, and evolutionary ecology. He examines costs and trade-offs associated with investments in reproduction. He utilizes a combination of quantitative and qualitative methods, including anthropometrics, demography, endocrinology, actigraphy, validated health surveys, and dyadic peer ratings, alongside semi-structured demographic interviews and measures of social norms. Sean’s work is informed by a mix of evolutionary and behavioral ecology, cultural evolutionary theory, and evolutionary psychology, especially related to reproductive concerns. Sean is also a co-director of the Kunene Rural Health and Demography Project, a contributor to the ENDOW project, and a collaborator on the Shodagor Longitudinal Health and Demography Project.Find the publications discussed in today’s episode here: https://sprall.github.io------------------------------Sean’s email: sprall@missouri.eduTwitter: @ssprall------------------------------Contact the Sausage of Science Podcast and Human Biology Association:Facebook: www.facebook.com/groups/humanbiologyassociationWebsite: humbio.org/, Twitter: @HumBioAssocChris Lynn, HBA Public Relations Committee Chair, Website: cdlynn.people.ua.edu/, email: cdlynn@ua.edu, Twitter:@Chris_LyMallika Sarma, Website: mallikasarma.com/, Twitter: @skyy_malCristina Gildee, HBA Junior Fellow, SoS producer:E-mail: cgildee@uw.edu
Drs. Karen Rosenberg and Wenda Trevathan join the show to discuss their work examining the evolution of human childbirth and infant helplessness. They also preview some of the content that will appear in their forthcoming (untitled) book. Title suggestions are welcome!Information about their previous publication Costly and Cute can be found here: https://sarweb.org/costly-cute/--------------------------------------------------------Karen Rosenberg is a biological anthropologist with a specialty in paleoanthropology. She received her degrees from the University of Chicago (B.A. 1976) and the University of Michigan (M.A. 1980, Ph.D., 1986) and has taught at the University of Delaware since 1987. She has studied human fossils and modern human skeletal material in museums in Europe, North America, Asia and Africa. Her research interests are in the origin of modern humans and the evolution of modern human childbirth and human infant helplessness. She has published in edited volumes as well as anthropological and clinical obstetrical journals. Wenda Trevathan is Regents Professor (emerita) of Anthropology at New Mexico State University and a biological anthropologist who earned her PhD at the University of Colorado, Boulder. Her research focuses on the evolutionary and biocultural factors underlying human reproduction including childbirth, maternal behavior, sexuality, and menopause. Her primary publications include works on the evolution of childbirth and evolutionary medicine. She is a co-editor of two collections of works on evolutionary medicine (Oxford University Press, 1999 and 2008) and published the book Ancient Bodies, Modern Lives: How Evolution Has Shaped Women’s Health (Oxford University Press) in 2010. She currently serves as a Senior Scholar at the School for Advanced Research in Santa Fe, New Mexico, where she is writing a book on infancy in evolutionary perspective with Karen Rosenberg.------------------------------------------------------------------------Contact the Sausage of Science Podcast and Human Biology Association:Facebook: www.facebook.com/groups/humanbiologyassociationWebsite: humbio.org/, Twitter: @HumBioAssocChris Lynn, HBA Public Relations Committee Chair,Website: cdlynn.people.ua.edu/, Email: cdlynn@ua.edu, Twitter:@Chris_LyMallika Sarma, Sausage of Science Co-HostWebsite: mallikasarma.com/, Twitter: @skyy_malEric Griffith, HBA Junior Fellow, SoS producerE-mail: eric.griffith@duke.edu
Chris and Mallika chat with Florence Lee, a PhD candidate at the University of Albany (SUNY), to discuss her collaboration with the Akwasane Task Force on the Environment. Their work investigates pollutant exposure and autoimmunity in Akwesasne Mohawk women. In this episode, Florence discusses the biological consequences of a century of DDT and PCB contamination along the St. Lawrence River for the indigenous women who continue to live there.------------------------------Find the publication discussed in today’s episode here:“Associations between autoimmune dysfunction and pollutants in Akwesasne Mohawk women: Dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane and polychlorinated biphenyl exposure” https://doi.org/10.1002/ajhb.23773------------------------------Florence's email: flee2@albany.edu------------------------------Contact the Sausage of Science Podcast and Human Biology Association:Facebook: www.facebook.com/groups/humanbiologyassociationWebsite: humbio.org/, Twitter: @HumBioAssocChris Lynn, HBA Public Relations Committee Chair, Website: cdlynn.people.ua.edu/, email: cdlynn@ua.edu, Twitter:@Chris_LyMallika Sarma, Website: mallikasarma.com/, Twitter: @skyy_malCristina Gildee, HBA Junior Fellow, SoS producer:E-mail: cgildee@uw.edu
Elizabeth Holdsworth, PhD, joins the Sausage of Science to chat about her new paper titled “Maternal–infant interaction quality is associated with child NR3C1 CpG site methylation at 7 years of age.” The paper can be found at the AJHB website here:https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ajhb.23876-------------------------------------Dr. Elizabeth Holdsworth is a Postdoctoral Research Associate in the Meehan lab at Washington State University. Elizabeth is a researcher of mother-infant relationships, infant growth, and the early life origins of health. She received her PhD in Anthropology from the University at Albany, SUNY, for her biocultural anthropological research into how mothers’ unequal exposure to stress can affect maternal health, as well as contribute to small changes in infant growth through epigenetic mechanisms. Her current research identifies how maternal-infant dynamics and maternal stress may contribute to variation in the milk microbiome.-------------------------------------Contact the Sausage of Science Podcast and Human Biology Association:Facebook: www.facebook.com/groups/humanbiologyassociationWebsite: humbio.org/, Twitter: @HumBioAssocChris Lynn, HBA Public Relations Committee Chair, Website: cdlynn.people.ua.edu/, Email: cdlynn@ua.edu, Twitter:@Chris_LyMallika Sarma, Sausage of Science Co-HostWebsite: mallikasarma.com/, Twitter: @skyy_malEric Griffith, HBA Junior Fellow, SoS producerE-mail: eric.griffith@duke.edu
Chris and Mallika bring back repeat offender Dr. Stephanie Levy an assistant professor in the Department of Anthropology at Hunter College, a faculty member at the CUNY Graduate Center Department of Anthropology, and a core faculty member of the New York Consortium in Evolutionary Primatology (NYCEP). Dr. Levy returns to catch us up on her recent work in human energetics, biological adaptation, circumpolar populations, seasonality, social influences on health disparities, cardiometabolic health, and climate change. She graciously shares her experiences and research as a co-PI on the Indigenous Siberian Health and Adaptation Project (ISHAP), a collaborative project that includes researchers based in Russia and the U.S. In this episode, we learn about her research exploring how environmental conditions across the life course influence population variation in metabolism and disease risk. Dr. Levy’s work investigates human evolution, adaptation, and health by integrating energetics and endocrinology tools to foster comparative research that examines how ecological and social environments shape biological variation across human populations and primate species.------------------------------Find the publication discussed in today’s episode here:“Brown adipose tissue thermogenesis among young adults in northeastern Siberia and Midwest United States and its relationship with other biological adaptations to cold climates” https://doi.org/10.1002/ajhb.23723------------------------------Dr. Levy’s email: stephanie.levy@hunter.cuny.eduWebsite: https://www.levyhumanbiologylab.com/Twitter: @slevyscience ------------------------------Contact the Sausage of Science Podcast and Human Biology Association:Facebook: www.facebook.com/groups/humanbiologyassociationWebsite: humbio.org/, Twitter: @HumBioAssocChris Lynn, HBA Public Relations Committee Chair, Website: cdlynn.people.ua.edu/, email: cdlynn@ua.edu, Twitter:@Chris_LyMallika Sarma, Website: mallikasarma.com/, Twitter: @skyy_malCristina Gildee, HBA Junior Fellow, SoS producer:E-mail: cgildee@uw.edu
Alicia DeLouize, PhD candidate at the University of Oregon, joins Sausage of Science to chat about minimally invasive biomarkers, cancer, and why "Aging is an Earth thing" (maybe).-------------------------------------Alicia M. DeLouize is a PhD candidate in Biological Anthropology with previous experience in psychology, oncology, and translational research. She specializes in global health, human evolutionary biology, and applied statistics. Her research focuses on the evolutionary and environmental underpinings of physiological systems, including aging, metabolism, the immune system, cancer, and other chronic diseases. By taking a multidisciplinary approach, she uses anthropology, biology, health sciences, psychology, and epidemiology to understand health and disease at the microbiological, personal, and population levels. Currently, she is study coordinator for the the World Health Organization’s World Health Survey Plus (WHS+) and she has worked closely with their Study on Global Ageing and Adult Health (SAGE) where she focuses on the population-based collection and analysis of minimally invasive biomarkers.You can follow her work at https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Alicia_Delouize2.-------------------------------------Contact the Sausage of Science Podcast and Human Biology Association:Facebook: www.facebook.com/groups/humanbiologyassociationWebsite: humbio.org/, Twitter: @HumBioAssocChris Lynn, HBA Public Relations Committee Chair, Website: cdlynn.people.ua.edu/, Email: cdlynn@ua.edu, Twitter:@Chris_LyMallika Sarma, Website: mallikasarma.com/, Twitter: @skyy_malEric Griffith, HBA Junior Fellow, SoS producer:E-mail: eric.griffith@duke.edu
Chris and Mallika check in with Dr. Crystal Patil, (Ph.D. Anthropology from Ohio State University) whose research focuses on how the social world becomes embodied and expressed as health, illness, or suffering. The motivation for her research stems from a concern for social justice. Her research draws on ecological and social determinants frameworks to make sense of complex health-related problems. She applies these models as she develops and tests strategies to reduce health disparities and strengthen health systems both in the USA and in sub-Saharan Africa. Her mentoring focuses on fostering the productive careers of students and newer investigators and including them in her active research projects.------------------------------Find the publications discussed in today's episode here:CenteringPregnancy-Africa: A pilot of group antenatal care to address Millennium Development Goals: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.midw.2013.05.008Implementation challenges and outcomes of a randomized controlled pilot study of a group prenatal care model in Malawi and Tanzania: https://doi.org/10.1002/ijgo.12324An effectiveness-implementation hybrid type 1 trial assessing the impact of group versus individual antenatal care on maternal and infant outcomes in Malawi: https://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-020-8276-x------------------------------Dr. Patil's email: cpatil@uic.eduWebsite: https://nursing.uic.edu/profiles/crystal-patil/Twitter: @clpatil--------------------Contact the Sausage of Science Podcast and Human Biology Association:Facebook: www.facebook.com/groups/humanbiologyassociationWebsite: humbio.org/, Twitter: @HumBioAssocChris Lynn, HBA Public Relations Committee Chair, Website: cdlynn.people.ua.edu/, Email: cdlynn@ua.edu, Twitter:@Chris_LyMallika Sarma, Website: mallikasarma.com/, Twitter: @skyy_malCristina Gildee, HBA Junior Fellow, SoS producer:E-mail: cgildee@uw.edu
In this episode, Mallika and Chris chat with Dr. Jason DeCaro, Professor and Chair of the University of Alabama's Anthropology Department. Dr. DeCaro studies the intersection of cultural models, everyday practices, and human physiology in the production of differential well-being across the life course, especially but not exclusively focusing on children. His Developmental Ecology and Human Biology Lab is a biological anthropology "wet lab" providing a center within the department for biocultural research involving immunological, endocrine, nutritional, and other biological markers. His recent publication on applying minimally invasive biomarkers of chronic stress across complex ecological contexts can be found at the following link:https://doi.org/10.1002/ajhb.23814------------------------------Dr. DeCaro's email: jason.a.decaro@ua.eduWebsite: https://dehb.ua.edu/jason-decaro.html--------------------Contact the Sausage of Science Podcast and Human Biology Association:Facebook: www.facebook.com/groups/humanbiologyassociationWebsite: humbio.org/, Twitter: @HumBioAssocChris Lynn, HBA Public Relations Committee Chair, Website: cdlynn.people.ua.edu/, Email: cdlynn@ua.edu, Twitter:@Chris_LyMallika Sarma, Website: mallikasarma.com/, Twitter: @skyy_malCristina Gildee, HBA Junior Fellow, SoS producer:E-mail: cgildee@uw.edu
What happens when hypercapitalism intersects with human fertility?Professor Diane Tober joins Chris and Mallika to reveal some of the nuances of Assisted Reproductive Technologies, with a focus on egg donation.-------------------------------------Diane Tober is Associate Professor at the University of Alabama Department of Anthropology and Institute for Social Science Research. She is a medical anthropologist with a focus on biocultural aspects of health, gender and sexuality, the commodification of the body, science and technology studies, bioethics, and social and reproductive justice. She has been conducting research exploring egg donors’ decisions and experiences within the global market for human eggs since 2013. With funding from the National Science Foundation, she is comparing egg donation in the United States and Spain. She has conducted field research in Iran, Spain, and the United States.Prof. Tober can be contacted via her website:https://dianetober.com/Her book, "Romancing the Sperm," discussed on today's show can be found here:https://www.rutgersuniversitypress.org/romancing-the-sperm/9780813590783-------------------------------------Contact the Sausage of Science Podcast and Human Biology Association:Facebook: www.facebook.com/groups/humanbiologyassociationWebsite:humbio.org/, Twitter: @HumBioAssocChris Lynn, HBA Public Relations Committee Chair, Website: cdlynn.people.ua.edu/, Email: cdlynn@ua.edu, Twitter:@Chris_LyMallika Sarma, Website: mallikasarma.com/Eric Griffith, HBA Junior Fellow, SoS producer:E-mail: eric.griffith@duke.edu
Welcome Sausage of Science's newest host Dr. Mallika S. Sarma! Mallika joins Chris as co-host while Cara is out on sabbatical.In this episode, Mallika and Chris chat with Dr. Paula Tallman about several aspects of water insecurity, notably an important overlap with gender-based violence. Dr. Paula Skye Tallman is an Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Loyola University Chicago. Her research examines the drivers of health inequities among marginalized populations in South America and Southeast Asia, with a focus on connecting this scholarship to environmental and social policy. Dr. Tallman received her B.A. in Behavioral Biology from Johns Hopkins University, her Ph.D. in Biological Anthropology from Northwestern University, and completed a postdoctoral fellowship focused on indigenous well-being and conservation at the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago. Her recent publications discussed on the show can be found at the following links, titled:Water insecurity, self-reported physical health, and objective measures of biological health in the Peruvian Amazonhttps://doi.org/10.1002/ajhb.23805Water insecurity and mental health in the Amazon: Economic and ecological drivers of distresshttps://doi.org/10.1002/sea2.12144--------------------Contact the Sausage of Science Podcast and Human Biology Association:Facebook: www.facebook.com/groups/humanbiologyassociationWebsite:humbio.org/, Twitter: @HumBioAssocChris Lynn, HBA Public Relations Committee Chair, Website: cdlynn.people.ua.edu/, Email: cdlynn@ua.edu, Twitter:@Chris_LyMallika Sarma, Website: https://mallikasarma.com/Eric Griffith, HBA Junior Fellow, SoS producer:E-mail: eric.griffith@duke.edu
Chris and Cara discuss underappreciated athletes before unpacking Big Data with Dr. Elizabeth Miller, an Associate Professor at the University of South Florida. Dr. Miller is a biological anthropologist interested in evolutionary and biocultural approaches to maternal and child health. Her research program spans the study of human milk composition and infant feeding practices, infant immune function in diverse ecologies, maternal iron homeostasis, and early microbiome maturation. In this episode, she breaks down her use of a biocultural approach to early growth using data from NHANES to test the effects of social inequalities on birth weight and later height and how it can be used to contextualize potential pathways of embodiment that link social structure and biology.Her latest publication can be found in AJHB, titled:A critical biocultural approach to early growth in the United StatesFind it here: https://doi.org/10.1002/ajhb.23726------------------------------Dr. Miller's e-mail: emm3@usf.eduTwitter: @humanbiolabWebsite: https://humanbiolab.wordpress.com/--------------------Contact the Sausage of Science Podcast and Human Biology Association:Facebook: www.facebook.com/groups/humanbiologyassociationWebsite:humbio.org/, Twitter: @HumBioAssocCara Ocobock, Website: sites.nd.edu/cara-ocobock/, Email:cocobock@nd.edu, Twitter:@CaraOcobockChris Lynn, HBA Public Relations Committee Chair, Website: cdlynn.people.ua.edu/, Email: cdlynn@ua.edu, Twitter:@Chris_LyCristina Gildee, HBA Junior Fellow, SoS producer:E-mail: cgildee@uw.edu
On this show Dr. Asher Rosinger joins Cara and Chris to discuss his new paper in the American Journal of Human Biology (AJHB) titled “Cross-cultural variation in thirst perception in hot-humid and hot-arid environments: Evidence from two small-scale populations.” Dr. Rosinger’s paper is available here: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ajhb.23715 For more insight on this topic please see the upcoming AJHB special issue on Extreme Climatic Events and Human Biology and Health, which will be released in January and ties into the theme of thirst and extreme thermal environments. Applications for the NSF REU field school mentioned on this episode can be accessed here: https://anthropology.columbian.gwu.edu/koobi-fora-field-school Correction: During the podcast Dr. Rosinger mentions “Sarah Fenestra” but her last name is Hlubik. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dr. Rosinger is an assistant professor of Anthropology and Biobehavioral Health at Penn State University where he is the director of the Water, Health, and Nutrition laboratory. Dr. Rosinger’s full bio and e-mail address can be found here: https://hhd.psu.edu/contact/asher-rosinger --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Contact the Sausage of Science Podcast and Human Biology Association:Facebook: www.facebook.com/groups/humanbiologyassociationWebsite:humbio.org/, Twitter: @HumBioAssocCara Ocobock, Website: sites.nd.edu/cara-ocobock/, Email:cocobock@nd.edu, Twitter:@CaraOcobockChris Lynn, HBA Public Relations Committee Chair, Website: cdlynn.people.ua.edu/, Email: cdlynn@ua.edu, Twitter:@Chris_LyEric Griffith, HBA Junior Fellow, SoS producer:E-mail: eric.griffith@duke.edu
Chris sits down with Dr. Emily Pollock, a Prevention Effectiveness Fellow at the CDC in the Division of Sexually Transmitted Disease Prevention, where she brings a more robust understanding of human behavior to the challenges of STI modeling for public health. Dr. Pollock earned her PhD in Biological Anthropology from the University of Washington, with a certificate from the Center for Studies in Demography and Ecology at the same institution. Her dissertation, "Epidemics as Complex Systems: Demography, Networks, and Treatment of Chlamydia trachomatis," focused on applying dynamic network analysis to understand how behavioral, biological, and biomedical factors influence chlamydia reinfection. Most recently, she worked as a data analytics and modeling team member for the CDC's response to the monkeypox outbreak. She has helped develop agent-based network models to understand behavioral drivers of monkeypox transmission and the effects of behavior on the epidemic's trajectory.She discusses two papers: First, the monkeypox model she and her team recently published: "Modeling the Impact of Sexual Networks in the Transmission of Monkeypox virus Among Gay, Bisexual, and Other Men Who Have Sex With Men" which you can find at: https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/71/wr/mm7135e2.htm?s_cid=mm7135e2_wAnd this paper: "Impacts of Changing Sexual Behavior on Chlamydia and Gonorrhea Burden Among US High School Students, 2007 to 2017," which has some fascinating insights into changing rates of sexual behavior and their contribution to some declines in adolescent STI diagnoses. Find it here: http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/OLQ.0000000000001390 [dx.doi.org]------------------------------Emily's e-mail: ruu7@cdc.gov--------------------Contact the Sausage of Science Podcast and Human Biology Association:Facebook: www.facebook.com/groups/humanbiologyassociationWebsite:humbio.org/, Twitter: @HumBioAssocCara Ocobock, Website: sites.nd.edu/cara-ocobock/, Email:cocobock@nd.edu, Twitter:@CaraOcobockChris Lynn, HBA Public Relations Committee Chair, Website: cdlynn.people.ua.edu/, Email: cdlynn@ua.edu, Twitter:@Chris_LyCristina Gildee, HBA Junior Fellow, SoS producer:E-mail: cgildee@uw.edu
Prof. Lynnette Leidy Sievert joins Chris and Cara to discuss how hot flashes, and other symptoms of menopause, vary around the world. Stick around for "offboarding" career advice and a conversation about fish!--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Lynnette Leidy Sievert has studied variation in age at menopause and symptoms at midlife for more than 30 years. In collaboration with local researchers, she carried out studies of menopause in western Massachusetts; Hilo, Hawaii; the Selška Valley, Slovenia; Asunción and Mbaracayu, Paraguay; Puebla and Campeche, Mexico; Sylhet, Bangladesh; and London, UK, as well as pilot studies in Odisha, India, and Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia. Sievert also studies and writes about the evolution of menopause and post-reproductive life. Of late, she has been disentangling the experience of hot flashes from the heat and humidity of Campeche, Mexico, and planning to study hot flashes in the winter cold of Mongolia. Her current study is on hot flashes in relation to estimates of brown adipose tissue. Sievert is an elected Fellow of the AAAS, served on the Board of Trustees of the North American Menopause Society, and was the Editor-in-Chief of the American Journal of Human Biology, the journal of the Human Biology Association.Her paper discussed on today's show, titled "Hand grip strength, standing balance, and rapid foot tapping in relation to the menopausal transition in Campeche, Mexico," can be found here:https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ajhb.23781Contact Prof. Lynnette Sievert via e-mail at: leidy@umass.edu.--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Contact the Sausage of Science Podcast and Human Biology Association:Facebook: www.facebook.com/groups/humanbiologyassociationWebsite:humbio.org/, Twitter: @HumBioAssocCara Ocobock, Website: sites.nd.edu/cara-ocobock/, Email:cocobock@nd.edu, Twitter:@CaraOcobockChris Lynn, HBA Public Relations Committee Chair, Website: cdlynn.people.ua.edu/, Email: cdlynn@ua.edu, Twitter:@Chris_LyEric Griffith, HBA Junior Fellow, SoS producer:E-mail: eric.griffith@duke.edu
Cara interviews Dr. Monica Keith, an Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Vanderbilt University and Data Scientist who studies longitudinal health and child growth in a biosocial framework. Monica uses Bayesian models to assess predictors of growth and health outcomes and integrates health, socio-ecological, and genetic data to study human variation and health disparities in diverse contexts.
Monica currently works with three ongoing field studies in Dominica, Bangladesh, and Argentina, researching health, growth, and biodemography in rural and Indigenous populations. She also uses data from the NIH National Institute of Child Health and Human Development to address disparities in reproductive and maternal health in the US.
She joins Cara to discuss her most recent work (in review) titled: "Racialized/ethnic disparities in pathways linking social determinants of health, markers of allostatic load, and hypertensive disorders of pregnancy among nulliparous US women."
Monica's e-mail: monica.h.keith@vanderbilt.edu Website: https://www.monicahkeith.com/
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Cara returns to join Chris in interviewing Kathy Wander, a biological anthropologist and epidemiologist working at the intersection of human evolutionary biology and health. Much of Dr. Wander's research seeks to understand how humans (and in particular, children) cope with nutritional and infectious disease stress and the impact of malnutrition and infectious disease on the protective and pathological capacity of the immune system. She has recently published papers about a method developed in her lab (https://www.wanderlab.org) to describe immune activity in human milk; the impact of gender and kinship on risk for chronic disease; and, how genetic adaptations to high altitude may decrease the risk for chronic disease among Himalayan-descended populations. She has active grants to investigate nutrition and infectious disease risk in Tanzania and Nigeria. Check them out here: "Tradeoffs in milk immunity affect infant infectious disease risk" https://doi.org/10.1093/emph/eoac020 "Human milk lactoferrin variation in relation to maternal inflammation and iron deficiency in northern Kenya" https://doi.org/10.1002/ajhb.23812
Kathy's e-mail: katherinewander@binghamton.edu
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Ale Geisel-Zamora is an undergraduate student at Dartmouth College working under the direction of Prof. Zaneta Thayer. Ale won the Hilde Spielvogel Award for Outstanding Presentation by an Undergraduate Student at this year's HBA meeting for her poster "Social support promotes postpartum mental health among US-based participants during the COVID-19 pandemic."
The poster, and supplements, can be found here: https://sagz.myportfolio.com/
Ale also chats with Cara and Chris about her undergraduate thesis work examining how Tiktok use affects stress.
Ale can be contacted on Instagram here: https://www.instagram.com/alegoesglobal/
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Dr. Alison Murray joins Chris and Cara to discuss how activity levels during puberty have lifelong effects on bone structure in human females.
Dr. Murray’s research examines the evolutionary and behavioral mechanisms shaping variations in human bone and body composition, as well as sex differences within it. To do so, she/they combine the study of archaeological skeletal remains with engineering-based musculoskeletal computer modeling and the experimental study of living humans, including athletes and control subjects.
Her paper discussed on today's show, titled "Tibial cortical and trabecular variables together can pinpoint the timing of impact loading relative to menarche in premenopausal females," can be found here: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/ajhb.23711
Follow Dr. Murray @ali_murray & Dr. Murray’s research group @PhaseUVIC on Twitter
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Chris triumphs in a battle with technology while interviewing our gracious guest Rachael Anyim, a Clifford D. Clark Diversity Fellow and PhD candidate in anthropology at Binghamton University. Rachael and Chris discuss her recent abstract submission, "The effects of milk cortisol on immune responses to in vitro bacterial stimulation" and her work with immune biomarkers in infants and breastmilk. Rachael is the 2022 recipient of the HBA's Phyllis Eveleth Student Award for her outstanding presentation during last year's annual meeting. Rachael recently co-authored a related methods paper with Dr. Katherine Wander and others in the Journal of Human Lactation titled "In Vitro Stimulation of Whole Milk Specimens: A Field-Friendly Method to Assess Milk Immune Activity" which you can find here: https://doi.org/10.1177/0890334421999628
Rachael's e-mail: ranyim1@binghamton.edu Twitter: https://twitter.com/BUBreastfeeding
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Dr. Amanda Veile is a biological anthropologist, and her research broadly examines human birthing and breastfeeding behaviors and outcomes, and several epidemiologic factors that shape cross-cultural variation in child development. She currently maintains field research projects in Mexico and Peru. She is an Assistant Professor of Biological Anthropology, the Director of LABOR (Laboratory for Behavior, Ontogeny and Reproduction), a faculty associate at the Center on Aging and the Life Course (CALC), an executive board member of the Ingestive Behavior Research Center (IBRC), and holds a courtesy faculty appointment in the Department of Public Health at Purdue University. She is also an Assistant Editor at Birth, a peer-reviewed obstetrics and gynecology journal.
Her paper discussed on today's show, titled "Household conditions modulate associations between cesarean delivery and childhood growth," can be found here: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/ajpa.24563
Prof. Veile can be contacted via her website: http://www.amandaveile.com/
Or by e-mail: aveile@purdue.edu
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Cara cannibalizes pickles before she and Chris interview Dr. Zachary Cofran, an assistant professor of Anthropology at Vassar College who is affiliated with the Center for the Exploration of the Deep Human Journey at the University of Witwatersrand. Dr. Cofran received his Ph.D. from the University of Michigan in 2012 (GO BLUE!). Zachary studies human evolution, growth, and development and has been heavily involved in the Rising Star cave system in South Africa. Zachary has a new paper out in the American Journal of Biological Anthropology called "The immature Homo naledi ilium from the Lesedi Chamber, Rising Star Cave, South Africa" Find it here: https://doi.org/10.1002/ajpa.24522
Zach's e-mail: zcofran@vassar.edu Website: https://lawnchairanthropology.com/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/ZCofran
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SoS 171: Behold! Natalia Reagan
Behold! Natalia Reagan joins Chris and Cara to talk science engagement, precarity in academia, and ...phallic grapes?!
Natalia Reagan is an anthropologist, primatologist, actor, producer, writer, host, and comedienne. She is a comedy writer and correspondent on Neil deGrasse Tyson’s StarTalk on Nat Geo and is also a StarTalk All-Star podcast host. She was the co-host on Spike TV’s show 10 Million Dollar Bigfoot Bounty. Natalia wrote and produced a web series called Talking Shit with Dr. Todd and Natalia.
She was also a regular animal expert on Nat Geo Wild’s Everything You Didn’t Know About Animals. She was a regular writer and host for Discovery Communication’s Seeker & TestTube. She has appeared on the TODAY Show, Fox News, Arise 360, HuffPost Weird News Podcast, and various podcasts & radio shows weighing in on different scientific subjects, from the evolution of boobs and butts to how pheromones play a role in human mating.
As an actress, Natalia has appeared in My Name is Earl, The Drew Carey Show, Better Off Ted, and Sex Drive. When not chasing Bigfoot or discussing the evolution of boobs, Natalia also works with a critically endangered subspecies of spider monkey, the Azuero spider monkey (Ateles geoffroyi azuerensis) in rural Panama and runs BOAS Network, an anthropology website that brings anthropology to the mainstream.
Before chasing ornery spider monkeys through the wilds of Central America, she wrote and performed sketch comedy and was in an improv troupe called The Omelettes. She has appeared in My Name is Earl, Better off Ted, and Sex Drive.
Natalia is also the co-founder and chief creative director of BOAS Network, a non-profit organization that brings the field of anthropology to the mainstream via fun and educational videos
Natalia’s multitude of online presences can be found here: https://linktr.ee/nataliareagan
The website for the Ernest & Hadley bookstore can be found here: https://www.ernestandhadleybooks.com/
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Dr. Lara Durgavich is a visiting lecturer in the Anthropology Department at Boston University. In 2013, Lara received her Ph.D. from Boston University as well. Her research focuses on ovarian function, mating behaviors, and life history in captive orangutans. A strong proponent of science communication and outreach, Lara is also heavily involved with March Mammal Madness, a topic of discussion on this podcast many times in the past.
Chris and Cara investigate her new paper, “A composite menstrual cycle of captive orangutans, with associated hormonal and behavioral variability,” which recently came out in The American Journal of Primatology and can be found here: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35856470/
Her 2020 TEDxTufts Talk "An evolutionary perspective on human health and disease" can be found here: https://www.ted.com/talks/lara_durgavich_an_evolutionary_perspective_on_human_health_and_disease
Lara's e-mail: ldurgavich@gmail.com on Twitter at: twitter.com/tinkeringprim8 Website: https://thetinkeringprimate.wordpress.com/
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Andrea Silva-Caballero joins Chris and Cara to discuss her studies of adolescent sleep patterns in urban and rural Mexico.
Silva-Caballero completed her BA in Biological Anthropology in 2013 at the National School of Anthropology and History, Mexico City. Since then, she has specialized in medical anthropology with a focus on the pediatric population. She holds an MSc in Evolutionary Medicine awarded in 2017 by the University of Durham, United Kingdom, and is a member of the Durham Infancy & Sleep Center. She’s currently wrapping up revisions on her dissertation.
Silva-Caballero's research reexamines current biomedical ideas concerning adolescent sleep by examining and comparing adolescents' sleep patterns in two rural sites and one urban site in Mexico. In particular, she addresses the phase shift in adolescents' sleep-wake cycle and the influence of artificial light and solitary sleep on their sleep timing and duration.
Silva-Caballero was also the recipient of HBA’s 2022 E.E. Hunt Award, which recognizes a graduate student for an outstanding presentation or poster at the meeting. Silva-Caballero's poster was titled “Non-WEIRD Circadian Rhythms: Is There An Adolescent Shift in Sleep Timing.”
Finally, Andrea’s name may be familiar to listeners, as she is a member of our HBA Public Relations team. She is a junior service fellow for HBA & has been managing the website for the past year.
The abstract for Andrea's 2022 HBA poster, "Non-WEIRD circadian rhythms: is there an adolescent shift in sleep timing?" can be found here: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/ajhb.23740
Andrea won the Edward E. Hunt Jr. Award for this presentation at this year's HBA conference. Congrats, Andrea!
Andrea's e-mail address is: andrea.silva-caballero2@durham.ac.uk Andrea's can be found on Twitter at: https://twitter.com/Barbietrans4mer
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The HBA Public Relations Committee is recruiting TWO new JUNIOR SERVICE FELLOWS to serve as producers for the weekly science podcast The Sausage of Science (https://www.humbio.org/podcasts/ ). Position is suited to those with interest in science communication and some familiarity with our podcast. We recommend listening to a mix of older and more recent episodes from beginning to end to familiarize yourself with content and style before applying. Duties will include: • Editing podcast recordings (using open-source Audacity software, ~2.5 hours every other week), • Pulling quotes from interviews for PR and compiling program notes (~5 minutes if done in editing workflow), • Assigning category and tags to each episode for SEO, • Posting episodes to Soundcloud and HBA site, • Notify interviewees of episodes and post to social media weekly Podcast co-hosts will provide training specific to the job, including custom how-to video tutorials. Expected time commitment is ~6 hours/month. Each Junior Service Fellow will receive $500 in travel reimbursement to attend the annual HBA meeting for each year of service. Interested applicants should send an email expressing interest with a CV (and for student members, a brief email note of support from their adviser) to HBA Public Relations Chair (and SoS cohost) Chris Lynn (cdlynn@ua.edu). Applications will be reviewed beginning August 15, 2022. Please share this announcement with your network of interested scholars. Thank you!
Our last guest of the season is Dr. Kristen Knuston, an Associate Professor of Neurology (Sleep Medicine)and Preventative Medicine (Epidemiology) at the Feinberg School of Medicine. Dr. Knutson studies the associations between sleep, circadian rhythms, and health. She chats with Chris and Cara about the different health outcomes between morning and night persons and tells us how a misalignment with your chronotype can lead to asthma or GI issues.
Contact Dr. Knuston at kristen.knutson@northwestern.edu and follow her on Twitter @klknut
Read Dr. Knuston's article featured in this episode here: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29642757/
Found out more about her work at https://www.feinberg.northwestern.edu/faculty-profiles/az/profile.html?xid=37050
See Dr. Knutson's work being highlighted on Saturday Night Live: https://twitter.com/mvonschantz/status/986288195376680962?s=20&t=WvxRisJg5PL6lDY3ZMMUHQ
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Blast from the past! In this episode we bring you an interview with Amy Anderson from Spring of 2021. Chris and Cara talk to her about her dissertation research on health as reflected through the human skeleton and biomarkers of bone turnover. She is currently a Ph.D. Candidate at The University of California Santa Barbara. You can contact her via her website: https://www.amyandersonskeletonreader.com/about or on Twitter: @skeletonreader
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Dr. Alyssa Crittenden joins us today for an excellent conversation (despite internet connectivity issues) about her work with Hadza community members, community-based work, and reconsidering biological sample collection. You can find her recent paper “Who Owns Poop? and Other Ethical Dilemmas Facing an Anthropologist Who Works at the Interface of Biological Research and Indigenous Rights” https://digitalscholarship.unlv.edu/anthro_fac_articles/590/. Dr. Alyssa Crittenden is an Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Nevada Las Vegas. You can contact her via her website: https://www.unlv.edu/people/alyssa-crittenden and on Twitter: @an_crittenden
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Dr. Holly Horan is a clinical, biocultural, and medical anthropologist at the University of Alabama studying how lived experiences contribute to perinatal health and birth outcomes . She chats with Chris and Cara about how her experience as a trained doula parallels her research investigating maternal stress and how her fieldwork has shaped the direction of her studies.
You can find Dr. Horan's AJHB paper on cortisol levels across the pregnancy and postpartum period here: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/ajhb.23718
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Chris and Cara are joined today by Dr. Bonnie Kaiser, anthropologist, global health researcher, and Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of California San Diego. On today's episode, they discuss her recent work on the relationship between mental health and medical pluralism in Haiti, idioms of distress, oncofertility, the power of team-based projects, and taking the time to un-pack and innovate new methods and measurement tools to reflect context-based participant experiences.
Contact Dr. Kaiser on her faculty website: https://anthropology.ucsd.edu/people/faculty/faculty-profiles/Bonnie%20N.%20Kaiser.html, on Twitter: @BonnieNKaiser, and by email: bnkaiser@ucsd.edu
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This week's guest is Dr. Heather Shattuck-Heidorn, an Assistant Professor of Women's and Gender Studies at the University of Southern Maine. Dr. Shattuck-Heidorn is also the Director of Engaged Communications at the Harvard GenderSci Lab. She tells Chris and Cara about the importance of interdisciplinary collaborations and critical thought in producing and communicating good science. She also delves into how to address sex and gender in science and why biological anthropology is particularly well-suited for a better understanding of these important variables.
You can contact Dr. Shattuck-Heidorn at heather.shattuckheidorn@maine.edu and follow her on Twitter @HeatherSH22
Learn more about the GenderSci Lab at https://www.genderscilab.org
Read Dr. Shattuck-Heidorn and colleagues critique on the study finding sex differences in COVID outcomes here: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-021-03644-7
And read her recent AJHB piece with Dr. Zachary DuBois on challenging the sex binary here: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1002/ajhb.23623?casa_token=cSqxEoTD8t4AAAAA:f5KVfa2v58ReB0n_h0LzdxaIMKJEqglEYuDKgyRf8XsCra6Ixr2jAPrrpqagpyze3EsulNoXBnDZ
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Dr. Glorieuse Uwizeye is an Assistant Professor at The Western University of Ontario in London, Ontario, Canada. Today, Chris and Alex talk to her about her work on the health impacts of the Rwandan genocide on youth. In particular, they discuss her recent paper entitled “Double Jeopardy: Young adult mental and physical health outcomes following conception via genocidal rape during the 1994 genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda.” If you would like to contact her, you can visit her website: https://www.uwo.ca/fhs/nursing/about/faculty/research_supervisors/uwizeye_g.html or email her at guwizeye@uwo.ca
You can find KivuBelt Coffee mentioned at the end of the episode: https://www.kivubeltcoffee.com/
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Chris and Cara talk with Dr. Graciela Cabana, Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Tennessee Knoxville. Dr. Cabana’s work focuses on the human genome from a biosocial and biopolitical context. In particular, she has been working on a project developed to understand how public perspectives of race and nationality are impacted by recent trends of genetic testing in Argentina. To find out more about her work or contact her, visit her website: https://www.mal-utk.com/graciela-s-cabana or follow her on Twitter @GracielaCabana
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Dr. Adam Van Arsdale, a Professor of Anthropology at Wellesley College chats with Chris and Cara about why and how we need to rethink the way human anatomical evolution is taught. He discusses his recent presentations at the AABA in Denver and highlights his talk with Dr. Robin Nelson on the inconsistencies in how the term "population" is used by anthropologists.
You can find Dr. Van Arsdale's talk on the concept of human modernity here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t_LakWU3PR0
And his other AABA talk on the term "population" here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VJb9SunMtOo
You can also find Dr. Van Arsdale's MOOC prerecorded lectures on human evolution here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLWYl-iTHMAj3n-1o0idR9k2c0NYFBKspU
Contact Dr. Van Arsdale at avanarsd@wellesley.edu and on Twitter at @APV2600
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Dr. Briana Pobiner is a paleoanthropologist and Education Program specialist at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History. She chats with Chris and Cara about her research on the evolution of human diets and the possibility that Homo erectus may have been scavengers instead of hunters. She talks about the issues associated with making broad conclusions about the paleo diet and how academics can contribute to public engagement using the skills acquired doing research.
You can learn more about Dr. Pobiner's work at: https://humanorigins.si.edu/about/human-origins-program-team/briana-pobiner
You can contact Dr. Pobiner at pobinerb@si.edu and on Twitter @BrianaPobiner
Find her most recent research article at https://www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1073/pnas.2115540119
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On today’s episode, Dr. Janelle Wagnild and Dr. Justin Aunger discuss their Toolkit paper in AJHB on measuring sedentary behavior: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ajhb.23546. Dr. Wagnild is a postdoctoral scholar the University of Durham in Quantitative Methods and Anthropology of Health, you can find her webpage here: https://www.durham.ac.uk/staff/j-m-wagnild/ and on Twitter @jwagnild. Dr. Aunger is a Research Fellow at the University of Surrey and Birmingham. You can find his webpage here: https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/generic/panini/about/researchers/justin-aunger.aspx and Twitter: @j_aunger.
Episode photo: person sitting on a park bench, from Marco Testi on Unsplash.
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Today Cara and Chris talk with Dr. Jennifer Raff all about her new book “Origin: A Genetic History of The Americas” (https://www.twelvebooks.com/titles/jennifer-raff/origin/9781538749715/) and exciting/challenging ancient DNA research! Dr. Raff is an Associate Professor of Anthropology at The University of Kansas. This episode is chock-full of stunning and interesting insights! You can contact Dr. Raff on her website: https://anthropology.ku.edu/jennifer-raff#link1 or on Twitter: @JenniferRaff
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From male reproductive aging, embracing human variability in sports, to cool dog science. On this episode, Chris and Cara talk with Dr. Peter Gray, Professor of Anthropology at the University of Nevada Las Vegas about his diverse research on fatherhood and sexuality and the work he is mentoring! We hope you enjoy this fantastic episode and stay tuned for more after a week-long production break. SoS will be back with new episodes March 28th, 2022! You can contact Dr. Gray via email at peter.gray@unlv.edu or on twitter @peterbgray
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On todays episode of The Sausage of Science, Cara and Chris talk shop on dental calculus, telling a holistic story of the deceased, brown adipose tissue, and life in Copenhagen with Dr. Jonathan Robert Belanich. Dr. Belanich is a former student of Chris (Roll Tide!) and did his PhD in Microbiology from Mississippi State University and his Masters in Bioarchaeology. He is currently a post-doctoral fellow at Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Basic Metabolic Research. You can contact him via email at jbelanich@sund.ku.dk
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Dr. Thomas McDade, Professor of Anthropology at Northwestern University discusses why inflammation should not simply be branded a secret killer. He also chats with Chris and Cara about his ongoing research on the differences in antibody responses to COVID-19 infection and vaccination.
Find some of Dr. McDade's work on inflammation at: https://www.pnas.org/content/pnas/109/Supplement_2/17281.full.pdf and https://www.pnas.org/content/114/29/7611
Read his most recent publications on COVID-19 anti-body response at: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2589537021002984 and https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-021-96879-3
Contact Dr. McDade at t-mcdade@northwestern.edu and follow him on Twitter at @tmcdade35
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So, what’s the deal with sleep, immune function, and mortality risk? On today’s episode, Dr. Eric Shattuck and Dr. Corey Sparks discuss their collaboration to investigate how morality risks may be affected by sleep quality, through white blood cell function. Listen for more intriguing insights and read their paper here: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33527525/
Dr. Eric Shattuck is an Assistant Professor of Research at The University of Texas San Antonio (UTSA) and interim director of the Institute for Health Disparities Research. You can contact him or find out more about his work here: https://sites.google.com/view/ericshattuck/home and on Twitter: @eric_shattuck. Dr. Corey S. Sparks is an Associate Professor of Demography at UTSA. You can find out more about his work and forthcoming book here: http://coreysparks.weebly.com/ and on Twitter: @CoreySparks1
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In today's episode Chris and Cara talk to Dr. Stephanie McClure, assistant professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Alabama. Dr. McClure talks about the importance and the benefits of bringing anthropology to public health as evidenced by her own work leading and organizing six Covid-19 vaccination clinics across the country. Her and Cara also discuss their discontent with current policies restricting female athletes on the basis of their testosterone levels.
Find Dr. McClure's paper "On Integrity and the Risk of Generational Loss: Narratives of Preservation and Threat Underlie Policies Restricting Natural Testosterone in Women Athletes" at On Integrity and the Risk of Generational Loss: Narratives of Preservation and Threat Underlie Policies Restricting Natural Testosterone in Women Athletes
And her AJHB on collaborating with public health "Practices of disciplinary symbiosis: (Re)blending theory and method, anthropology and public health" at: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/ajhb.23683?casa_token=ZApztSmCGi0AAAAA%3As56_tsA7u1WdJt0x4rLAOPScI9T3wuHU4TByXhg9HQj6gwv5inG1QpbdniBKpBHL5dTmDK9J7xOk
Learn more about CoomuniVax at https://www.centerforhealthsecurity.org/our-work/Center-projects/communivax/local-teams.html
Contact Dr. McClure at smcclur1@ua.edu
Participate in and celebrate #AnthroDay: www.americananthro.org/anthroday
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Dr. Jessica Dimka is the Co-leader of the Centre for Research on Pandemics & Society at Oslo Metropolitan University in Norway. She chats with Chris and Cara about her work on the associations between behaviors and epidemics in Newfoundland and describes how modeling can be implemented in anthropological research.
Find Dr. Dimka's most recent publication "“We didn't get much schooling because we were fishing all the time”: Potential impacts of irregular school attendance on the spread of epidemics" at: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/ajhb.23578
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Evolutionary biologist Dr. Joseph L. Graves Jr. (North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University) and biological anthropologist Dr. Alan Goodman (Hampshire College)discuss their new book "Racism, Not Race" with Chris and Cara. They talk about how their new book addresses important common questions on race and racism and what their hopes are for a more just future.
Buy "Racism, Not Race" at https://cup.columbia.edu/book/racism-not-race/9780231200660
Contact Dr. Graves at gravesjl@ncat.edu and on Twitter @gravesjl55
Contact Dr. Goodman at agoodman@hampshire.edu and on Twitter @AHGoodman18 Learn more about his work at https://sites.hampshire.edu/agoodman/
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To start the new year off right, Chris and Cara chat with Dr. Helen Davis, a research associate at Harvard University. In this episode, Dr. Davis talks about her work on cognition and learning among the Tsimane, Twa, Zemba, and Himba. She also discusses her nonprofit and how she and her team contribute to their research communities through the One Pencil Project.
Contact Dr. Davis at helendavis@fas.harvard.edu, on Twitter @Helen_E_Davis and on her website https://helen-elizabeth-davis.com
Read her recent publication " Cultural Change Reduces GenderDifferences in Mobility and Spatial Ability among Seminomadic Pastoralist-Forager Children in Northern Namibia" with Jonathan Stack and Elizabeth Cashdan in Human Nature here: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12110-021-09388-7
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On our last episode for 2021, Chris and Cara talk to Dr. Elizabeth Sweet who is a biocultural anthropologist and social epidemiologist who works as an Associate Professor of Anthropology at The University of Massachusetts. She is currently studying the health consequences of neoliberalism, namely the effects of debt. You can find out more about the Price of Debt study here: https://www.umb.edu/debtstudy/research_team and contact her at Elizabeth.Sweet@umb.edu.
Her papers mentioned in the show:
Social Inequalities, Debt, and Health in the United States: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352827321000112
“Like you failed at life”: Debt, Health, and Neoliberal Subjectivity: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0277953618303745
Suggested reads by the late Dr. David Graeber:
Debt: The First Five Thousand Years: https://www.mhpbooks.com/books/debt/
Bullshit Jobs: https://bookshop.org/books/bullshit-jobs-a-theory-9781508264668/9781501143335
The Dawn of Everything: https://us.macmillan.com/books/9780374157357/thedawnofeverything
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Dr. Gavin Naylor is the Program Director at the Florida Program for Shark Research at the Florida Museum. Before his ALLELE (Alabama Lectures on Life's Evolution) talk he carved out some time to chat with Chris and Cara about his career path working with sharks and rays, the need for a greater genetic library of vertebrates, and how different walking shark species are impacted by climate change.
Contact Dr. Naylor at gnaylor@flmnh.ufl.edu or at @gavinnaylor on Twitter
Find more information on Dr. Naylor's team and their research at https://www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/sharks/about/
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On today’s episode Chris and Cara talk to Dr. Charles Roseman about his recent paper “Lewontin did not commit Lewontins fallacy, his critics do: Why racial taxonomy is not useful for the scientific study of human variation” https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/bies.202100204. Dr. Roseman is an Associate Professor in Evolution, Ecology and Behavior and Anthropology in the School of Integrative Biology at the University of Illinois. His work broadly focuses on genotype phenotype map structure, and the evolution of complex traits. You can view his website here: https://sib.illinois.edu/profile/croseman and follow him on Twitter @EvoRoseman.
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The Chief of Science and Harry W. and Diana V. Hind Dean of Science and Research Collections at the California Academy of Science, Dr. Shannon Bennett shares how her confinement at a leper colony led to her career as a virologist studying the evolution of viruses. She provides us with an in-depth look at how Covid-19 works and what the future might look like as we learn to live with the virus.
You can learn more about Dr. Bennett's work at https://www.calacademy.org/staff-member/shannon-bennett-phd and on Twitter @MicrobeExplorer
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On todays episode, Cara and Chris talk to James Gibb who is a current Ph.D. student at Northwestern University. James is broadly interested in LGBTQ2+ population health. His prior work has focused on sexual-orientation-based disparities in food security and bone health as well as sex and gender minority vulnerabilities throughout COVID-19. You can find out more about his work here: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/James-Gibb-2, email him: jamesgibb20126@u.northwestern.edu and find him on Twitter @JamesKGibb Contact the Sausage of Science Podcast and Human Biology Association: Facebook: www.facebook.com/groups/humanbiologyassociation Website:humbio.org/, Twitter: @HumBioAssoc Cara Ocobock, Website: sites.nd.edu/cara-ocobock/, Email:cocobock@nd.edu, Twitter:@CaraOcobock Chris Lynn, HBA Public Relations Committee Chair, Website: cdlynn.people.ua.edu/, Email: cdlynn@ua.edu, Twitter:@Chris_Ly Delaney Glass, Website: dglass.netlify.app/, Email: dglass1@uw.edu, Twitter: @GlassDelaney Alexandra Niclou, Email: aniclou@nd.edu, Twitter: @fiat_Luxandra
Dr. Erin P. Riley is a Professor of Anthropology at San Diego State University. As one of the few non-human biologists on the podcast she discusses the importance of bridging the gap between subfields and how ethnoprimatology can contribute to anthropology and ecology alike. Her newest book "The Promise of Contemporary Primatology" is a must-read for students, seasoned scholars, and everyone else.
Find "The Promise of Contemporary Primatology" here: https://www.routledge.com/The-Promise-of-Contemporary-Primatology-1st-Edition/Riley-Fuentes/p/book/9781629580715
Contact Dr. Riley at epriley@sdsu.edu and on Twitter @ethnoprimate
Visit her website at http://www.erinpriley.com
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Dr. Tina Lasisi joins Chris and Cara today to discuss her methodological innovations to understand variation in human hair morphology on this installment of our #Methodsandmeasuring series. Dr. Lasisi is currently a post-doctoral researcher and you can find out more information about her here: https://www.tinalasisi.com/ and on Twitter @TinaLasisi
You can contact Dr. Scelza at bscelza@anthro.ucla.edu or follow her on Twitter at @bascelza Contact the Sausage of Science Podcast and Human Biology Association: Facebook: www.facebook.com/groups/humanbiologyassociation Website:humbio.org/, Twitter: @HumBioAssoc Cara Ocobock, Website: sites.nd.edu/cara-ocobock/, Email:cocobock@nd.edu, Twitter:@CaraOcobock Chris Lynn, HBA Public Relations Committee Chair, Website: cdlynn.people.ua.edu/, Email: cdlynn@ua.edu, Twitter:@Chris_Ly Delaney Glass, Website: dglass.netlify.app/, Email: dglass1@uw.edu, Twitter: @GlassDelaney Alexandra Niclou, Email: aniclou@nd.edu, Twitter: @fiat_Luxandra
Dr. Brooke Scelza is a human behavioral ecologist (but she doesn't limit herself to one label)at UCLA studying reproductive strategies among the Himba of Namibia. Dr. Scelza tells Chris and Cara about how to ethically collect and share paternity data, how to form strong bonds with your research community, and highlights the importance of slow science.
You can contact Dr. Scelza at bscelza@anthro.ucla.edu or follow her on Twitter at @bascelza
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On today’s episode, Chris and Cara talk to Dr. Kathrine Starkweather, who is a biocultural and biological anthropologist and is an Assistant Professor at The University of Illinois- Chicago. They discuss her recent paper “Are fathers a good substitute for mothers? Paternal care and growth rates in Shodagor children” and her other exciting work. You can find more about her on her website: https://kathrinestarkweather.com/ or her faculty page: https://anth.uic.edu/profiles/starkweather-katie/ and on Twitter @kstark8
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Continuing our #MethodsandMeasuring series, Chris and Cara chat with Dr. Claudia Valeggia about her inspirational origin story, her work on reproductive health in the Qom of Argentina, and the importance of biological meaningfulness in data analysis. Dr. Valeggia is a Professor of Anthropology at Yale University and a PI in the Yale Reproductive Ecology Lab.
You can contact Dr. Valeggia at claudia.valeggia@yale.edu and on Twitter @ClaudiaValeggia
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Dr. William (Bill) Dressler is a professor emeritus at the University of Alabama. He is a biocultural anthropologist who pioneered the cultural consonance method. On this episode, he talks with Chris and Cara about the three 'c' words: cultural consonance, consensus, and competence as well as his thoughts on mixed methods in anthropology to kick off our special series on Methodological Pluralism in Human Biology. You can find his most recent book “Culture and the Individual: Theory and Method of Cultural Consonance” here: https://www.routledge.com/Culture-and-the-Individual-Theory-and-Method-of-Cultural-Consonance/Dressler/p/book/9781629585192
As a special treat, the intro and outro features Dr. Dressler playing the 1st cello suite of Prelude by Bach.
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In this episode Dr. Richard Bribiescas discusses his book "How Men Age: What evolution reveals about male health and mortality". He covers it all from natural variations in testosterone to why women live longer than men and how science fiction captures the absurdity of doing science.
Dr. Bribiescas is a Professor of Anthropology, Ecology, and Evolutionary Biology at Yale University. He is the primary investigator of the Yale Reproductive Ecology Laboratory, which you can check out at https://reproeco.yale.edu
You can contact Dr. Bribiescas at richard.bribiescas@yale.edu and on Twitter @RGBribiescas
Purchase "How Men Age" at https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691160634/how-men-age
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On this week’s episode of The Sausage of Science, we bring you an exciting interview with Dr. Anna Osterholtz who is an Assistant Professor of Bioanthropology at Mississippi State focusing on treatment of the dead and how poetics models can be applied to examine the social role of violence in Croatia and Cyprus. On this episode, she talks with Chris and Cara about her new book entitled “ The Poetics of Processing: Memory Formation, Identity, and the Handling of the Dead” (https://upcolorado.com/university-press-of-colorado/item/3884-the-poetics-of-processing) and ethics of using human remains in research and training in bioarchaeology. She is currently accepting graduate students and you can find out more about her research here: https://www.amec.msstate.edu/directory/ajo163
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We are back for a new season! Listen to our mini episode to catch up with the SoS team and learn what we have in store for this coming season. Regular episodes will be posted every Monday starting next week.
Meet our new junior service fellow Andrea Silva-Caballero: https://www.dur.ac.uk/directory/profile/?mode=staff&id=16770
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Dr. Jeremy DeSilva joined us for an interview on SoS 128. This week, in addition to a replay of his original interview, we hear audio excerpted from First Steps: How upright walking made us human by Jeremy DeSilva, read by Kaleo Griffith. Copyright 2021 by Jeremy DeSilva. Production Copyright 2021, HarperCollins Publishers. All rights reserved. You can find First Steps here: https://www.harpercollins.com/products/first-steps-jeremy-desilva You can find out more about Dr. DeSilva, his lab, and his work here: anthropology.dartmouth.edu/people/jeremy-desilva and on Twitter @desilva_jerry
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Dr. Patricia Wright is a Tropical Biologist, Conservationist, and Primatologist at Stony Brooke University. In this episode, we play an excerpt from her book For the Love of Lemurs, published by Lantern Publishing and Media. You can find print and eBook versions here: https://lanternpm.org/books/for-the-love-of-lemurs/. After the excerpt, we play the original interview with Dr. Wright from episode 47.
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This week’s book reading episode features Survival of the Friendliest: Understanding Our Origins and Rediscovering Our Common Humanity by Dr. Brian Hare and Vanessa Woods. The excerpt is read by René Ruiz and is followed by a re-run of Dr. Hare's interview about his book on the Sausage of Science.
Audio excerpted from SURVIVAL OF THE FRIENDLIEST: Understanding Our Origins and Rediscovering Our Common Humanity by Brian Hare and Vanessa Woods, read by René Ruiz. Copyright 2020 by Brian Hare and Vanessa Woods. Production Copyright 2020, Penguin Random House, LLC. All rights reserved.
You can find "Survival of the Friendliest" at: www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/55043…essa-woods/
Contact Dr. Hare at apeminds@gmail.com and follow him on Twitter @bharedogguy
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For our second book reading episode of the summer we will hear an excerpt from Dr. Herman Pontzer’s new book BURN: New Research Blows the Lid Off How We Really Burn Calories, Lose Weight, and Stay Healthy read by P.J. Ochlan. The reading is followed by a re-run of Dr. Pontzer’s discussion about his book with Chris and Cara which aired earlier this spring.
Audio excerpted from BURN: New Research Blows the Lid Off How We Really Burn Calories, Lose Weight, and Stay Healthy by Herman Pontzer, PhD, read by P.J. Ochlan. Copyright 2021 by Herman Pontzer. Production Copyright 2021, Penguin Random House, LLC. All rights reserved. You can find BURN at https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/603894/burn-by-herman-pontzer-phd/
You can contact Dr. Pontzer at herman.pontzer@duke.edu and @HermanPontzer
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To start off our summer book excerpt series we hear a reading from Dr. Dan Lieberman's most recent book "Exercised: Why Something We Never Evolved to Do is Healthy and Rewarding" read by Sean Runnette. The excerpt is followed by a re-run of Chris and Cara's interview with Dr. Lieberman about his book, which aired this spring.
Audio excerpted from EXERCISED: Why Something We Never Evolved to Do is Healthy and Rewarding by Daniel E Lieberman, read by Sean Runnette. Copyright 2020 by Daniel E Lieberman. Production Copyright 2020, Penguin Random House, LLC. All rights reserved.
You can find Dr. Lieberman's book at www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/55709…-lieberman/
Get in touch with Dr. Lieberman at danlieb@fas.harvard.edu
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Alejandra Nuñez-de la Mora is a professor at Universidad Veracruzana in Xalapa, Mexico. She conducts research in Biological Anthropology, Maternal and Child Health, and Reproductive Ecology. Today, Chris and Cara talk to her about the realities of working on a multidisciplinary research team and her future directions after reflecting during the COVID-19 pandemic. You can find out her website here: https://www.uv.mx/dp/dra-alejandra-nunez-de-la-mora/
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Dr. David Samson, assistant professor of anthropology at the University of Toronto's, work focuses on the link between sleep and human evolution. In this episode he talks about how our vices affect sleep patterns and how those in turn affect our health. He also chats with Chris and Cara about his two most recent publications on how to measure sleep and what modern sleep patterns mean in an evolutionary context.
Read Dr. Samson's AJHB article on "Taking the Sleep Lab to the Field" here: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/ajhb.23541
Contact Dr. Samson at david.samson@utoronto.ca and @Primalprimate on Twitter
Learn more about Dr. Samson's work at https://www.utm.utoronto.ca/david-samson/
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Dr. Jeremy DeSilva is an Associate Professor of Anthropology at Dartmouth College. He specializes in hominoid and hominin locomotion. On today’s episode, Cara and Chris discuss two of his books, A Most Interesting Problem: What Darwins Descent of Man Got Right and Wrong About Human Evolution and First Steps: How Upright Walking Made Us Human. You can find out more about Dr. DeSilva, his lab, and his work here: https://anthropology.dartmouth.edu/people/jeremy-desilva and on Twitter @desilva_jerry
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Chris and Cara chat with Elizabeth Cho, a PhD candidate in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Missouri. Elizabeth talks about her recent AABA presentation and the research behind it. Her findings on the associations between skeletal variations and climate are the result of her analysis of many different collections all across Asia.
You can contact Elizabeth at ecomdd@mail.missouri.edu
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Our guest this week is Mecca Burris, a PhD candidate at Indiana University. Mecca chats with Chris and Cara about what it means to be food insecure and why it is often overlooked. She dives into her research on teenage food marginalization and its effects on health, maturation, and stigma.
You can contact Mecca at burris@iu.edu or on Twitter at @MBurris16
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Today’s episode is part 2 of a 2-part episode with Dr. Josh Snodgrass who is a professor at the University of Oregon. Today Chris and Cara continue the conversation with him about the need for open-access teaching materials in human biology, academic and community service, and future research and service directions. You can find out more about his lab here: https://www.pinniped.net/snodgrasslab.html and contact him here: https://www.pinniped.net/snodgrass.html
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Today’s episode is part 1 of a 2-part episode with Dr. Josh Snodgrass who is a professor at the University of Oregon. Today Chris and Cara talk with him about how he got into anthropology, the power of collaborative research, and setting up or becoming involved at field sites. Stay tuned for part 2 next week! You can find out more about his lab here: https://www.pinniped.net/snodgrasslab.html and contact him here: https://www.pinniped.net/snodgrass.html
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Our guest this week is Sammantha Holder, a PhD candidate at the University of Georgia. Sammantha chats with Chris and Cara about her most recent publication in the special AJHB issue "Biocultural approaches to the plasticity of the human skeleton" and her dissertation work on skeletal plasticity in Napoleonic soldiers.
You can find Sammantha's paper here: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ajhb.23457
You can contact her at sammholder@uga.edu and at @HolderSammantha on Twitter
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On this week’s Sausage of Science, Chris and Cara talk to Stephanie Berger and Jacob S. Griffin who are graduate students in Bioarchaeology at The University of North Carolina and Dr. Sophia Dent who is a Visiting Assistant Professor at Appalachia State University about skeletal plasticity. Specifically, they discuss their roles as co-editors of a special issue in the American Journal of Human Biology “Biocultural approaches to the plasticity of the human skeleton” which you can find here: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/15206300/2021/33/2
You can reach Stephanie mestan@live.unc.edu, Jacob on Twitter @J_SGriffin or jgriff55@live.unc.edu and Sophia dentsc@appstate.edu
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On this weeks episode, Chris and Cara talk with Dr. Sharon DeWitte who is a Professor at the University of South Carolina in the Department of Anthropology. Much of her work focuses on variation in mortality risks before and after the medieval Black Death as well as demographic implications of the Black Death and its relation to skeletal indicators of puberty. You can find her website here: https://www.sc.edu/study/colleges_schools/artsandsciences/anthropology/our_people/directory/dewitte_sharon.php and you can follow her on Twitter @SharonDeWitte
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Jennifer Cullin is back on the pod! (First interview was Episode 53 in November 2019). She chats with Chris and Cara about the HBA meetings (the annual meeting starts today Monday March 29!!) and the Plenary Session in which she will be presenting her work on fat stigmatization and perception in young adults. Listen to her virtual podium talk at the HBAs today at 2pm EST.
You can contact Jennifer Cullin at jcullin@indiana.edu and @jennifermcullin
You can view the HBA 2021 Meeting Program at https://www.humbio.org/2021-meeting-program/
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Dr. Brian Hare is a professor of Evolutionary Anthropology, Psychology and Neuroscience at Duke University and a core member of the Center of Cognitive Neuroscience. He chats with Chris and Cara about his new book "Survival of the Friendliest" and what we can learn from puppies about our own evolution and bipartisanship. Find "Survival of the Friendliest" here: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/550437/survival-of-the-friendliest-by-brian-hare-and-vanessa-woods/ Learn more about Dr. Hare at: https://brianhare.net Contact Dr. Hare at apeminds@gmail.com and follow him on Twitter @bharedogguy
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Tara Cepon-Robins is an Assistant Professor of Anthropology at The University of Colorado-Colorado Springs and her research uses novel methods to test the Hygiene Hypothesis and Disappearing Microbiota Hypothesis. On today’s episode, Chris and Cara talk to her about her work with the Shuar in Amazonian Ecuador and her work in the Rural American South. You can find out more about her research here: https://anthropology.uccs.edu/tara-robins and on Twitter @HelminthLady.
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Dr. Gary James, a SUNY Distinguished Professor at Binghamton University, passed away on October 15 2020. Dr. James is remembered for his work on blood pressure variation and stress responses in humans. Over the years he was President of the American Human Biology and the American Dermatoglyphics Associations, received the Franz Boas Distinguished Achievement Award, the SUNY Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Teaching, and was a SUNY Distinguished Service Professor. He published over 300 peer-reviewed articles. Dr, Little and Dr. Brown chat with Cara and Alex about Gary's legacy to the field of anthropology and human biology and his mentorship to students in anthropology, nursing, and other fields.
Read Dr. James's last published review article on allostasis and adaptation here: https://anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/aman.13366
You can find Dr. James's In Memoriam by Dan Brown and Helene Van-Berge Landry here: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ajhb.23536
You can contact Dr. Brown at: dbrown@hawaii.edu And Dr. Little at: mlittle@binghamton.edu
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Herman Pontzer is an Associate Professor of Evolutionary Anthropology and Global Health at Duke University and author of “Burn”, forthcoming March 2nd 2021. In this episode, Chris and Cara talk about his new book which you can find here: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/603894/burn-by-herman-pontzer-phd, the complexity of human metabolism, and so much more! You can find out more about Dr. Pontzer and his research at his website: https://globalhealth.duke.edu/people/pontzer-herman, on Twitter @HermanPontzer and you can find out more about Hadza Fund on Twitter @HadzaFund and www.hadzafund.org Dr. Pontzer is also hiring a post-doc soon, applications are due at the end of March. You can find out more here: https://physanth.org/jobs/2842/
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Chris and Cara are out of hibernation! Their first guest is Dr. Daniel Lieberman, Edwin M. Lerner II Professor of Biological Sciences and Professor of Human Evolutionary Biology at Harvard University. Dr. Lieberman talks about his newly released book "Exercised: Why something we never evolved to do is healthy and rewarding" and answers Cara's questions about barefoot running and Chris's questions about how to motivate teenagers to get off the couch.
You can find Dr. Lieberman's book at https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/557099/exercised-by-daniel-e-lieberman/
Get in touch with Dr. Lieberman at danlieb@fas.harvard.edu
Link to another talk by Dr. Lieberman about his book, mentioned in this episode https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LbgukiJy6hY&fbclid=IwAR3X_ntR5FzuhmX8Tk0chy9C038lT_71CGEIuAcAN0i7p02vWcChIt64P90
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On this week’s Sausage of Science, Delaney and Alex bring you a Hackademics panel discussion on graduate research in the time of COVID-19. Luisa Maria Rivera is a Ph.D. student at Emory University studying intergenerational transmission of social experiences, Taylor van Doren is a Ph.D. student at the University of Missouri studying infectious disease, pandemics, and social inequalities, and Kayla Hurd is a Ph.D. student at Notre Dame studying food perception, edible insects, and health. You can find them on Twitter @guichitarivera, @taylor_vandoren and @KaylaJHurd.
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On this week's SoS episode, we bring you a guest episode from the Inking of Immunity podcast, brought to you by Chris Lynn, Becci Owens, Mike Smetana, Julia Sponholtz & Patricia Arnett. In this episode, they interview Dr. Gemma Angel and discuss her experience with preserved tattoos.
Dr. Gemma Angel is an interdisciplinary scholar specialising in the history and anthropology of the European tattoo, post-mortem tattoo collecting and preservation practices, artefacts manufactured from human skin, and medical museum collections of human remains. She completed her doctoral thesis at University College London in collaboration with the Science Museum in 2013, on a collection of 300 preserved tattooed human skins of nineteenth-century French origin. She has also previously trained as a tattooist. Gemma is currently Programme Director for the MA/MSc Museum Studies programme at the University of Leicester School of Museum Studies, where she lectures on material culture, museum anthropology, and the history of objects and collections.
Twitter: @Gemma_Angel | @Lifeand6Months Instagram: @Lifeand6Months Web: www.lifeand6months.com/
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On this weeks SoS episode, we bring you a guest episode from Inking of Immunity podcast, brought to you by Chris Lynn, Becci Owens, Mike Smetana, Julia Sponholtz & Patricia Arnett. In this episode, they interview Dr. Aaron Deter-Wolf.
Aaron Deter-Wolf is a Prehistoric Archaeologist with the Tennessee Division of Archaeology in Nashville, where his responsibilities include managing ancient Native American sites on State-owned lands and conducting archaeological excavations and research. In addition to his work in Tennessee, for the past decade Aaron has been a leading researcher in developing the archaeological study of tattooing. Those efforts include using contextual analysis and microscopic use-wear signatures to identify tattooing tools in archaeological collections, efforts to systematically document tattoos on mummified human remains, and experiments recreating and testing ancient and historic tattooing implements.
In 2009 Aaron organized the first American academic symposium to examine ancient and early historic Native American tattooing, which culminated in the volume Drawing with Great Needles: Ancient Tattoo Traditions of North America. He is co-editor of the volume Ancient Ink: The Archaeology of Tattooing, and in recent years was part of research teams that identified ancient tattooing tools including a 2,000-year old set of cactus spines from Utah, and 5,000-year old turkey bone needles from Tennessee. He and Ben Robitaille share information about the history of tattooing and body modification on the Instagram account @archaeologyink. Transcript of this episode can be found here: docs.google.com/document/d/15Nken…/edit?usp=sharing
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Our second bonus episode is a reading by Dr. Sera Young, an associate professor in the department of anthropology at Northwestern University. Dr. Young is sharing with us the preface and the first chapter from her book Craving Earth: Understanding Pica, the urge to eat clay, starch, ice & chalk. The reading is followed by a rerun of Chris and Cara's interview with Dr. Young (Episode 34).
You can find Craving Earth: Understanding Pica, the urge to eat clay, starch, ice & chalk at http://cup.columbia.edu/book/craving-earth/9780231146098
Learn more about Dr. Young's research at https://anthropology.northwestern.edu/people/faculty/sera-young.html
You can contact Dr. Young at via email at sera.young@northwestern.edu and on Twitter @ProfSeraYoung
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In this week’s episode we bring you an excerpt from “Lazy, Crazy, & Disgusting: Stigma and the Undoing of Global Health” by Drs Brewis and Wutich. Afterwards, you’ll hear their prior interview with Chris and Cara on water pirates, stigma, and the book itself. Drs. Alex Brewis and Amber Wutich are both President’s Professors in the School of Human Evolution and Social Change at Arizona State University. Drs. Brewis and Wutich discuss their paths to researching water, stigma, and becoming a writing/researching duo. Be sure to check out their AJHB issue: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/15206300. Additionally, check out their latest book, "Lazy, Crazy, and Disgusting: Stigma and the Undoing of Global Health" and check out their websites for their upcoming projects: http://amberwutich.org/ and http://alexbrewis.org/about-alex/. To get in touch with Dr. Brewis, send her an email at Alex.Brewis@asu.edu or follow her on twitter @brewis_alex. To get in touch with Dr. Wutich, send her an email at Amber.Wutich@asu.edu or follow her on twitter @AWutich.
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Dr. Kara Hoover from the Department of Anthropology at the University of Alaska Fairbanks chats with Chris and Cara about her research on the human sense of smell. She tells us about the development of testing tools needed to understand olfactory ability and how olfactory research can provide insight into human adaptation, the long-term consequences of Covid-19, and the relationship between pollution and cognitive impairment.
To learn more about Dr. Hoover's work and the often overlooked, yet incredibly important subject of olfactory research please visit https://smellofevolution.com
You can read Dr. Hoover's paper on "Field-testing olfactory ability to understand human olfactory ecology" in the American Journal of Human Biology here: https://doi.org/10.1002/ajhb.23411
and contact Dr. Hoover via email at kchoover@alaska.edu or on Twitter at @KaraCHoover
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Dr. Benjamin Campbell is an Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Wisconsin Milwaukee specializing in the evolution of human life course. He focuses on the way steroid hormones form a critical link between energetics and the timing of important life events, including childhood growth, pubertal maturation, and senescence. His recent work is on the role of DHEA (dehydroepiandrosterone) and DHEAS (dehydroepiandrosterone sulfate) in human development, and he has a recent publication in Frontiers of Endocrinology called “DHEAS and Human Development: An Evolutionary Perspective” that we’re talking about today. You can email him at campbelb@uwm.edu and his website: https://uwm.edu/anthropology/people/campbell-benjamin/, the Sausage of Science and Human Biology Association: Facebook: www.facebook.com/groups/humanbiologyassociation Website:humbio.org/, Twitter: @HumBioAssoc Cara Ocobock, Website:sites.nd.edu/cara-ocobock/,Email:cocobock@nd.edu, Twitter:@CaraOcobock Chris Lynn, HBA Public Relations Committee Chair,Website:cdlynn.people.ua.edu/,Email:cdlynn@ua.edu, Twitter:@Chris_Ly Theresa Gildner, Website:bonesandbehavior.org/theresa_gildner, Email: Theresa.E.Gildner@dartmouth.edu, Twitter: @TEGildner Delaney Glass, Website:https://dglass.netlify.app/, Email: dglass1@uw.edu, Twitter: @GlassDelaney Alexandra Niclou, Email: aniclou@nd.edu, Twitter: @fiat_Luxandra
Carlye Chaney is a PhD candidate in anthropology at Yale University and the HBA student rep. She chats with us about her undergraduate work on the association between exercise and immune function, the importance of including midterm exams as confounding variables, and the HBA student member Happy Hour.
You can read Carlye's paper "Salivary secretory immunoglobulin A variation between female varsity athletes and nonathletes" in the American Journal of Human Biology at https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/ajhb.23405?casa_token=lQrUw7uRORkAAAAA%3AXSNU0a-ESPyZgGg4_mktA10lCsKDMdeLobOmFt5IhNibc2L_LANZRnFDCjwZdtLg7dQsK2p6ussb
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You can contact her at carlye.chaney@yale.edu and follow her on Twitter at @CarlyeChaney
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Alexandra Niclou, Email: aniclou@nd.edu, Twitter: @fiat_Luxandra
Cara and Chris chat with Dr. Marc Kissel, an assistant professor in the Department of Anthropology at Appalachian State University. Dr. Kissel is broadly interested in the processes by which we became human, and he uses methods grounded in paleoanthropology, genetics, and semiotics to address this question. In this interview he discusses is work on human warfare, including his recent book (written with Nam Kim) titled “Emergent Warfare in Our Evolutionary Past”. He also shares some ideas for best practices to engage students of all backgrounds and help them succeed.
Learn more about Dr. Kissel’s work here: https://marckissel.netlify.app/ You can also email him at marc.kissel@gmail.com or follow him on Twitter @MarcKissel
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Theresa Gildner, Website: bonesandbehavior.org/theresa_gildner, Email: Theresa.E.Gildner@dartmouth.edu, Twitter: @TEGildner
Delaney Glass, Website: https://dglass.netlify.app/, Email: dglass1@uw.edu, Twitter: @GlassDelaney
Alexandra Niclou, Email: aniclou@nd.edu, Twitter: @fiat_Luxandra
Our guest this week is Dr. Courtney Helfrecht, assistant professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Alabama. Dr. Helfrecht chats with us about her path to bicultural anthropology and her work on adrenarche and alloparenting in sub-Saharan populations. She tells us about the importance of cooperation and what doing fieldwork far from home may teach us about ourselves.
Find out more about Dr. Helfrecht's work at https://chelfrecht.people.ua.edu
Read her paper "Life History and Socioecology of Infancy" here: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1002/ajpa.24145
Find her article in the AJHB "Sibling effects on nutritional status: Intersections of cooperation and competition across development" here: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/ajhb.22763
You can contact Dr. Helfrecht at chelfrecht@ua.edu
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Chris Lynn, HBA Public Relations Committee Chair, Website: cdlynn.people.ua.edu/, Email: cdlynn@ua.edu, Twitter:@Chris_Ly
Theresa Gildner, Website: bonesandbehavior.org/theresa_gildner, Email: Theresa.E.Gildner@dartmouth.edu, Twitter: @TEGildner
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Jada Benn Torres is Associate Professor of Anthropology and the Director for the Laboratory of Genetic Anthropology and Biocultural Studies at Vanderbilt University. She specializes in genetic ancestry, health disparities, and the Caribbean. You can find out more about her and her lab on her website: https://as.vanderbilt.edu/anthropology/bio/jada-benntorres Gabriel A Torres Colón is a cultural anthropologist who specializes in race, politics, intellectual history, and sports. You can find out more about him on his website: https://as.vanderbilt.edu/anthropology/bio/gabrieltorres-colon. On this weeks episode, Chris and Cara talk to Dr. Jada Benn Torres and Dr. Gabriel A Torres Colón about their new book Genetic Ancestry: Our Stories, Our Pasts which you can find here: https://www.routledge.com/Genetic-Ancestry-Our-Stories-Our-Pasts/Torres-Colon/p/book/9780367026240. You can follow Dr. Benn Torres on Twitter: @sankofadna and Dr. Torres Colón on Twitter: @GAtorrescolon, the Sausage of Science and Human Biology Association: Facebook: www.facebook.com/groups/humanbiologyassociation Website:humbio.org/, Twitter: @HumBioAssoc Cara Ocobock, Website:sites.nd.edu/cara-ocobock/,Email:cocobock@nd.edu, Twitter:@CaraOcobock Chris Lynn, HBA Public Relations Committee Chair,Website:cdlynn.people.ua.edu/,Email:cdlynn@ua.edu, Twitter:@Chris_Ly Theresa Gildner, Website:bonesandbehavior.org/theresa_gildner, Email: Theresa.E.Gildner@dartmouth.edu, Twitter: @TEGildner Delaney Glass, Website:https://dglass.netlify.app/, Email: dglass1@uw.edu, Twitter: @GlassDelaney Alexandra Niclou, Email: aniclou@nd.edu, Twitter: @fiat_Luxandra
This week we continue our series highlighting the work of the Sausage of Science producers. In this episode Cara chats with assistant producer Delaney Glass, a graduate student at the University of Washington. Delaney is broadly interested in human growth and development within the framework of Life History Theory. Her research currently focuses on the biological changes associated with adolescence and the cultural transitions that may occur during this period, especially how these biocultural factors may interact to shape stress physiology.
Learn more about Delaney’s work as her website: https://dglass.netlify.app/ You can also email her at dglass1@uw.edu or follow her on Twitter @GlassDelaney
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Cara Ocobock, Website: sites.nd.edu/cara-ocobock/, Email:cocobock@nd.edu, Twitter:@CaraOcobock
Chris Lynn, HBA Public Relations Committee Chair, Website:cdlynn.people.ua.edu/, Email:cdlynn@ua.edu, Twitter:@Chris_Ly
Theresa Gildner, Website: bonesandbehavior.org/theresa_gildner, Email: Theresa.E.Gildner@dartmouth.edu, Twitter: @TEGildner
Delaney Glass, Website: https://dglass.netlify.app/, Email: dglass1@uw.edu, Twitter: @GlassDelaney
Alexandra Niclou, Email: aniclou@nd.edu, Twitter: @fiat_Luxandra
This week's guest is Katie Sayre, a PhD student at the University of Southern California. Katie's work focuses on aging across different populations and lifestyles. She chats with Chris and Cara about her work with the Hadza of Tanzania and what it takes to stay healthy while growing old.
Find Katie's publication on physical function and aging here: https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10.1098/rstb.2019.0608?casa_token=3KYS1MLaungAAAAA%3AwwMSkPgHi6aC7HSwABUWdn1PoxdudyINZ4PO4KuPMfF6hHEIbC-3k_6UtZ_VzMQ6XeXds3jWc0WU
You can contact Katie at mksayre@usc.edu
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Cara Ocobock, Website: sites.nd.edu/cara-ocobock/, Email:cocobock@nd.edu, Twitter:@CaraOcobock
Chris Lynn, HBA Public Relations Committee Chair, Website: cdlynn.people.ua.edu/, Email: cdlynn@ua.edu, Twitter:@Chris_Ly
Theresa Gildner, Website: bonesandbehavior.org/theresa_gildner, Email: Theresa.E.Gildner@dartmouth.edu, Twitter: @TEGildner
Delaney Glass, Website: dglass.netlify.app/, Email: dglass1@uw.edu, Twitter: @GlassDelaney
Alexandra Niclou, Email: aniclou@nd.edu, Twitter: @fiat_Luxandra
Athena Aktipis is an Associate Professor of Psychology at Arizona State University and is the co-director of the Human Generosity Project. She is also the chair of the Zombie Apocalypse Medicine Meeting: http://www.zombiemed.org/ and host of the podcast Zombified: https://www.zombified.org/ on Channel Zed: https://www.channelzed.org/. Today Chris and Cara talk to her about science communication, how zombification is everywhere, and her new book The Cheating Cell: How evolution helps us understand and treat cancer, which you can find here: https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691163840/the-cheating-cell as well as on Audible: https://www.audible.com/pd/The-Cheating-Cell-Audiobook/0691205094, You can find out more about Dr. Aktipis on her website: http://www.athenaaktipis.org/ and on Twitter: @AthenaAktipis the Sausage of Science and Human Biology Association: Facebook: www.facebook.com/groups/humanbiologyassociation Website:humbio.org/, Twitter: @HumBioAssoc Cara Ocobock, Website:sites.nd.edu/cara-ocobock/,Email:cocobock@nd.edu, Twitter:@CaraOcobock Chris Lynn, HBA Public Relations Committee Chair,Website:cdlynn.people.ua.edu/,Email:cdlynn@ua.edu, Twitter:@Chris_Ly Theresa Gildner, Website:bonesandbehavior.org/theresa_gildner, Email: Theresa.E.Gildner@dartmouth.edu, Twitter: @TEGildner Delaney Glass, Website:https://dglass.netlify.app/, Email: dglass1@uw.edu, Twitter: @GlassDelaney Alexandra Niclou, Email: aniclou@nd.edu, Twitter: @fiat_Luxandra
In this special 100th SoS episode, Chris and Cara chat with our very own podcast producer Alexandra Niclou. A PhD candidate at the University of Notre Dame, Alex studies the many facets of human energetics and physiological adaptations. In particular, her work focuses on brown fat activity variation in adults under different climatic and energetic conditions, exploring the metabolic cost of brown fat and how physical exercise influences its activity. Her dissertation work in Samoa is funded by NSF and the Wenner-Gren Foundation.
Email Alex at aniclou@nd.edu and follower her on Twitter @fiat_Luxandra
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Cara Ocobock, Website: sites.nd.edu/cara-ocobock/, Email:cocobock@nd.edu, Twitter:@CaraOcobock
Chris Lynn, HBA Public Relations Committee Chair, Website:cdlynn.people.ua.edu/, Email:cdlynn@ua.edu, Twitter:@Chris_Ly
Theresa Gildner, Website: bonesandbehavior.org/theresa_gildner, Email: Theresa.E.Gildner@dartmouth.edu, Twitter: @TEGildner
Delaney Glass, Website: https://dglass.netlify.app/, Email: dglass1@uw.edu, Twitter: @GlassDelaney
Alexandra Niclou, Email: aniclou@nd.edu, Twitter: @fiat_Luxandra
This is the first of a series of episodes highlighting the work and interests of the Sausage of Science team. First up is our associate producer, Dr. Theresa Gildner. Theresa is currently a postdoctoral fellow at Dartmouth College and will be starting a new position as an Assistant Professor in the Anthropology Department at Washington University in St, Louis in January. She chats with Cara and Chris about her work with the Shuar Health and Life History Project and about her recent paper on the potential roles of parasite infections in mitigating the effects of COVID.
Read Dr. Gildner's paper on "Market Integration and soil-transmitted helminth infection among the Shuar of Amazonian Ecuador here: https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article/comments?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0236924
and her fresh-off-the-press paper "Old Friends Meet a new Foe - A potential for immune-printing parasites in mitigating COVID-19 morbidity and mortality" here: https://academic.oup.com/emph/advance-article/doi/10.1093/emph/eoaa037/5930904?guestAccessKey=e26874a1-ad3b-42fe-a622-4da350a137c2
You can contact Dr. Gildner at Theresa.E.Gildner@dartmouth.edu & find out more about her work at https://tgildner.wixsite.com/theresa-gildner The Shuar Health and Life History Project https://www.shuarproject.org
Contact the the Sausage of Science and Human Biology Association: Facebook: www.facebook.com/groups/humanbiologyassociation Website: www.humbio.org Twitter: @HumBioAssoc Cara Ocobock, Website: sites.nd.edu/cara-ocobock/ Twitter:@CaraOcobock Email: cocobock@nd.edu Chris Lynn, HBA Public Relations Committee Chair, Website: cdlynn.people.ua.edu Email: cdlynn@ua.edu Twitter:@Chris_Ly Theresa Gildner, Website:bonesandbehavior.org/theresa_gildner, Email: Theresa.E.Gildner@dartmouth.edu, Twitter: @TEGildner Delaney Glass, Website:dglass.netlify.app/, Email: dglass1@uw.edu, Twitter: @GlassDelaney Alexandra Niclou, Email: aniclou@nd.edu, Twitter: @fiat_Luxandra
Ruby Fried is an Assistant Professor of Health Sciences at the University of Alaska-Anchorage. She is currently researching traditional food security and its effects on physical and mental health on St Paul Island with the Aleut community. Additionally, she is working on research investigating the widespread effects of COVID-19 in rural Alaska among Alaska Native peoples. In this episode, Chris and Cara talk to her about her work with Alaska Native women and children, subsistence food access as a nexus of resistance and resilience, and much more! You can find more information about Dr. Ruby Fried and about her research here: https://www.uaa.alaska.edu/academics/college-of-health/departments/institute-for-circumpolar-health-studies/staff.cshtml the Sausage of Science and Human Biology Association: Facebook: www.facebook.com/groups/humanbiologyassociation Website:humbio.org/, Twitter: @HumBioAssoc Cara Ocobock, Website:sites.nd.edu/cara-ocobock/,Email:cocobock@nd.edu, Twitter:@CaraOcobock Chris Lynn, HBA Public Relations Committee Chair,Website:cdlynn.people.ua.edu/,Email:cdlynn@ua.edu, Twitter:@Chris_Ly Theresa Gildner, Website:bonesandbehavior.org/theresa_gildner, Email: Theresa.E.Gildner@dartmouth.edu, Twitter: @TEGildner Delaney Glass, Website:https://dglass.netlify.app/, Email: dglass1@uw.edu, Twitter: @GlassDelaney Alexandra Niclou, Email: aniclou@nd.edu, Twitter: @fiat_Luxandra
This week Cara and our assistant producer Alex chat with Dr. David Raichlen, a professor of biological sciences at the University of Southern California. We discuss his work on physical (in)activity in the Hadza people and why “how” we rest matters. We also delve into how applying evolutionary perspectives may help us slow down brain aging and why no one has thought of installing squatting racks in rodent cages.
Read Dr. Raichlen’s paper on “Sitting, squatting, and the evolutionary biology of human activity” here: https://dukespace.lib.duke.edu/dspace/bitstream/handle/10161/21129/Raichlen%202020%20PNAS_Inactivity.pdf?sequence=2&isAllowed=y and his Scientific American article on “Why your brain needs exercise” here: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/why-your-brain-needs-exercise/
Email Dr. Raichlen at draichle@usc.edu And learn more about his work at https://dornsife.usc.edu/ebel/
Contact the the Sausage of Science and Human Biology Association: Facebook: www.facebook.com/groups/humanbiologyassociation Website: www.humbio.org Twitter: @HumBioAssoc Cara Ocobock, Website: http://sites.nd.edu/cara-ocobock/ Twitter:@CaraOcobock Email: cocobock@nd.edu Chris Lynn, HBA Public Relations Committee Chair, Website: http://cdlynn.people.ua.edu Email: cdlynn@ua.edu Twitter:@Chris_Ly Theresa Gildner, Website:bonesandbehavior.org/theresa_gildner, Email: Theresa.E.Gildner@dartmouth.edu, Twitter: @TEGildner Delaney Glass, Website:dglass.netlify.app/, Email: dglass1@uw.edu, Twitter: @GlassDelaney Alexandra Niclou, Email: aniclou@nd.edu, Twitter: @fiat_Luxandra
Dr. Frank Johnston, a Professor Emeritus of biological anthropology at the University of Pennsylvania, passed away on August 20, 2020. Dr. Johnston was known for his work in child development, especially the impact of lifestyle variation on nutritional status and growth. He received many honors throughout his prolific career and held several notable positions, including president of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists, as well as Editor-in-Chief of the American Journal of Physical Anthropology and the American Journal of Human Biology (which he helped establish). Dr. Johnston was also a strong advocate for applying anthropological knowledge to actively engage with communities. In this memorial episode, Chris and Cara discuss his many contributions to the field with his former doctoral students Drs. Larry Schell and Babette Zemel.
The memoriam piece co-written by Dr. Schell with Drs. Penny Gordon-Larsen and Linda A. Valleroy can be found here: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/ajhb.23514?af=R To learn more about Dr. Schell, please visit: https://www.albany.edu/anthropology/faculty/lawrence-m-schell You can learn more about Dr. Zemel’s work here: https://www.chop.edu/clinical-staff/zemel-babette-s
Contact the Sausage of Science and Human Biology Association: Facebook: www.facebook.com/groups/humanbiologyassociation Website:humbio.org/, Twitter: @HumBioAssoc Cara Ocobock, Website: sites.nd.edu/cara-ocobock/, Email:cocobock@nd.edu, Twitter:@CaraOcobock Chris Lynn, HBA Public Relations Committee Chair, Website:cdlynn.people.ua.edu/, Email:cdlynn@ua.edu, Twitter:@Chris_Ly Theresa Gildner, Website: bonesandbehavior.org/theresa_gildner, Email: Theresa.E.Gildner@dartmouth.edu, Twitter: @TEGildner Delaney Glass, Website: https://dglass.netlify.app/, Email: dglass1@uw.edu, Twitter: @GlassDelaney Alexandra Niclou, Email: aniclou@nd.edu, Twitter: @fiat_Luxandra
Tisa Loewen is a bioarcheologist and Ph.D. student at Arizona State University. Her current work studies the Romanized peoples that once lived-in modern-day Croatia and the Eastern Adriatic. She uses quantitative genetics of dental nonmetric traits to understand regional biological relationships and to provide a biohistorical perspective on relational identities. Tisa is also a contributor to Black in Bioanthropology and involved in AnthroIllustrated. In this episode, Cara & Chris talk to Tisa about her journey as an anthropologist and the service commitments she has contributed to. You can find more information about Tisa on Twitter: @AnthropologisTL and her website: https://sites.google.com/asu.edu/tloewen Black in Bioanth: https://twitter.com/BlackinBioAnth And AnthroIllustrated: https://anthroillustrated.com/ the Sausage of Science and Human Biology Association: Facebook: www.facebook.com/groups/humanbiologyassociation Website:humbio.org/, Twitter: @HumBioAssoc Cara Ocobock, Website:sites.nd.edu/cara-ocobock/,Email:cocobock@nd.edu, Twitter:@CaraOcobock Chris Lynn, HBA Public Relations Committee Chair,Website:cdlynn.people.ua.edu/,Email:cdlynn@ua.edu, Twitter:@Chris_Ly Theresa Gildner, Website:bonesandbehavior.org/theresa_gildner, Email: Theresa.E.Gildner@dartmouth.edu, Twitter: @TEGildner Delaney Glass, Website:https://dglass.netlify.app/, Email: dglass1@uw.edu, Twitter: @GlassDelaney Alexandra Niclou, Email: aniclou@nd.edu, Twitter: @fiat_Luxandra
Dr. Leslea Hlusko is currently the Vice President of the American Association of Physical Anthropology and a professor of integrative biology at UC Berkeley. She will soon be joining Centro Nacional de Investigación sobre la Evolución Humana, CENIEH, in Burgos, Spain as a research professor. In this episode Cara and Chris interview Leslea about her recent paper “A genotype: phenotype approach testing taxonomic hypotheses in hominids” and her broader work on the genetic and developmental basis of mammalian skeletal variation. -You can learn more about Dr. Hlusko’s work here:https://www.lesleahlusko.org/Contact the Sausage of Science and Human Biology Association:Facebook:www.facebook.com/groups/humanbiologyassociationWebsite:humbio.org/, Twitter: @HumBioAssoc Cara Ocobock, Website:sites.nd.edu/cara-ocobock/,Email:cocobock@nd.edu, Twitter:@CaraOcobock Chris Lynn, HBA Public Relations Committee Chair,Website:cdlynn.people.ua.edu/,Email:cdlynn@ua.edu, Twitter:@Chris_Ly Theresa Gildner, Website:bonesandbehavior.org/theresa_gildner, Email: Theresa.E.Gildner@dartmouth.edu, Twitter: @TEGildner Delaney Glass, Website:https://dglass.netlify.app/, Email: dglass1@uw.edu, Twitter: @GlassDelaney Alexandra Niclou, Email: aniclou@nd.edu, Twitter: @fiat_Luxandra
Dr. Alan Walked passed away on November 20, 2017. A paleoanthropologist known for his work in early human evolution, Dr. Walker was the Evan Pugh Professor of Biological Anthropology and Biology at the Pennsylvania State University and was also a research scientist at the National Museum of Kenya. During his impressive career Dr. Walker discovered the “Black Skull” and was also on the research team that discovered Turkana Boy. He received many awards throughout his life, including a MacArthur Fellowship "genius grant". In this episode, Chris and Cara honor and remember his many contributions to the field with his former PhD student Dr. Leslea Hlusko and his former postdoc Dr. Peter Ungar.
You can find their memorial piece here: https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsbm.2019.0017 To learn more about Dr. Ungar, you can visit his website: https://ungarlab.uark.edu/ You can learn more about Dr. Hlusko’s work here: https://www.lesleahlusko.org/
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Cara Ocobock, Website: sites.nd.edu/cara-ocobock/, Email:cocobock@nd.edu, Twitter:@CaraOcobock
Chris Lynn, HBA Public Relations Committee Chair, Website:cdlynn.people.ua.edu/, Email:cdlynn@ua.edu, Twitter:@Chris_Ly
Theresa Gildner, Website: bonesandbehavior.org/theresa_gildner, Email: Theresa.E.Gildner@dartmouth.edu, Twitter: @TEGildner
Delaney Glass, Website: https://dglass.netlify.app/, Email: dglass1@uw.edu, Twitter: @GlassDelaney
Alexandra Niclou, Email: aniclou@nd.edu, Twitter: @fiat_Luxandra
This week Chris and Cara chat with the “guru of dental microwear”, Dr. Peter Ungar. Dr. Ungar is a Distinguished Professor of Anthropology at the University of Arkansas. His research focuses on the use of teeth to reconstruct the diets of extinct species, especially hominins. In this interview, Dr. Ungar discusses the important contributions of dental microwear analyses to paleoanthropology, as well as his work to advance microwear analysis technology to better understand the impact of environmental change on past life, with implications for current climate change.
Email Dr. Ungar at pungar@uark.edu And learn more about his work at: https://ungarlab.uark.edu/
You can also check out his book “Evolution’s Bite” at: https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691160535/evolutions-bite
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Cara Ocobock, Website: sites.nd.edu/cara-ocobock/, Email:cocobock@nd.edu, Twitter:@CaraOcobock
Chris Lynn, HBA Public Relations Committee Chair, Website:cdlynn.people.ua.edu/, Email:cdlynn@ua.edu, Twitter:@Chris_Ly
Theresa Gildner, Website: bonesandbehavior.org/theresa_gildner, Email: Theresa.E.Gildner@dartmouth.edu, Twitter: @TEGildner
In this episode Chris and Cara talk with Dr. Tom Leatherman (Professor of Anthropology at UMass Amherst) and Dr. Alan Goodman (Professor of Anthropology at Hampshire College). Drs. Leatherman and Goodman discuss their revolutionary work advocating for biocultural collaborations within anthropology, focusing especially on concepts of embodiment, political economy, and structural racism. The conversation explores advances in biocultural work, from the publication of their groundbreaking book “Building a New Biocultural Synthesis” to the state of the field today.
Email Dr. Leatherman at: tleatherman@anthro.umass.edu Email Dr. Goodman at: agoodman@hampshire.edu
Check out the AJHB article “Building on the biocultural syntheses: 20 years and still expanding” referenced in the episode here: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ajhb.23360
You can find the rest of the AJHB Special Issue articles here: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/15206300/2020/32/4
Contact the Sausage of Science and Human Biology Association: Facebook: www.facebook.com/groups/humanbiologyassociation Website:humbio.org/, Twitter: @HumBioAssoc
Cara Ocobock, Website: sites.nd.edu/cara-ocobock/, Email:cocobock@nd.edu, Twitter:@CaraOcobock
Chris Lynn, HBA Public Relations Committee Chair, Website:cdlynn.people.ua.edu/, Email:cdlynn@ua.edu, Twitter:@Chris_Ly
Theresa Gildner, Website: bonesandbehavior.org/theresa_gildner, Email: Theresa.E.Gildner@dartmouth.edu, Twitter: @TEGildner
SoS 90 – Biocultural Perspectives on Tattooing with Dr. Christopher Lynn We’re back from break! To kick off this new season, we have an interview with our very own Dr. Christopher Lynn. Chris is a biocultural medical anthropologist and Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Alabama. In this episode Chris talks about his ongoing work examining associations between immune function and tattooing, focusing on a recent article featured in the AJHB Special Issue: Continuity and Change in Biocultural Anthropology. This study tested whether tattooing may act as a costly signal of immunological quality among participants in American Samoa.
Learn more about Dr. Lynn’s work at his website: cdlynn.people.ua.edu
Inking of Immunity Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Inking.of.Immunity/ Inking of Immunity Twitter: @Inking_Immunity Inking of Immunity Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/inking.of.immunity/?hl=en
Email: cdlynn@ua.edu, Twitter: @Chris_Ly Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/cheechsweet/?hl=en Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/christopherdanalynn
Check out the AJHB article “The evolutionary adaptation of body art: Tattooing as costly honest signaling of enhanced immune response in American Samoa” referenced in the episode here: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ajhb.23347
You can find the rest of the AJHB Special Issue articles here: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/15206300/2020/32/4
Contact the Sausage of Science and Human Biology Association: Facebook: www.facebook.com/groups/humanbiologyassociation Website:humbio.org/, Twitter: @HumBioAssoc
Cara Ocobock, Website: sites.nd.edu/cara-ocobock/, Email:cocobock@nd.edu, Twitter:@CaraOcobock
Chris Lynn, HBA Public Relations Committee Chair, Website:cdlynn.people.ua.edu/, Email:cdlynn@ua.edu, Twitter:@Chris_Ly
Theresa Gildner, Website: bonesandbehavior.org/theresa_gildner, Email: Theresa.E.Gildner@dartmouth.edu, Twitter: @TEGildner
This week we continue our series featuring book excerpts read by previous podcast guests. In this episode, Dr. Rebecca Lester, Professor of Sociocultural Anthropology at Washington University in St. Louis , reads the Preface from her book, "Famished: Eating Disorders and Failed Care in America". We then rebroadcast her original interview (SoS 63, aired in March 2020), in which Dr. Lester discusses issues surrounding mental health in academia. Follow Dr. Lester on twitter @psychanthro, visit her website at https://rebeccalester.com/, or email her at RJLESTER@WUSTL.EDU
Contact the Sausage of Science and Human Biology Association: Facebook: www.facebook.com/groups/humanbiologyassociation Website:humbio.org/, Twitter: @HumBioAssoc
Cara Ocobock, Website: sites.nd.edu/cara-ocobock/, Email:cocobock@nd.edu, Twitter:@CaraOcobock
Chris Lynn, HBA Public Relations Committee Chair, Website:cdlynn.people.ua.edu/, Email:cdlynn@ua.edu, Twitter:@Chris_Ly
Caroline Owens, Email: cowens8@emory.edu, Twitter: @careowens
Theresa Gildner, Email: Theresa.E.Gildner@dartmouth.edu, Twitter: @TEGildner
This week we bring you a crossover with the podcast “Speaking of Race”, hosted by Drs. Jim Bindon, Jo Weaver, and Erik Peterson. This episode features an interview with Drs. Yolanda Moses and Alan Goodman, speaking about their work on the American Anthropological Association Project on Race. This interview originally aired on MAY 16, 2020.
Check out other Speaking of Race episodes here: http://speakingofrace.ua.edu/podcast
Race: Are We So Different? Project Website: https://understandingrace.org/
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Cara Ocobock, Website: sites.nd.edu/cara-ocobock/, Email:cocobock@nd.edu, Twitter:@CaraOcobock
Chris Lynn, HBA Public Relations Committee Chair, Website:cdlynn.people.ua.edu/, Email:cdlynn@ua.edu, Twitter:@Chris_Ly
Caroline Owens, Email: cowens8@emory.edu, Twitter: @careowens
Theresa Gildner, Email: Theresa.E.Gildner@dartmouth.edu, Twitter: @TEGildner
This week we continue our series featuring book excerpts read by previous podcast guests. In this episode, Dr. David Geary, Curator's Professor of Psychology at the University of Missouri-Columbia, reads Chapter One, "Evolution of Fatherhood" from his book, "Male, Female: The Evolution of Human Sex Differences". We then rebroadcast his original interview (SoS 41, aired in May 2019), in which Dr. Geary discusses his path to these research topics, the applications, and broader impacts of his research, as well as contention within the field regarding the bases of sex differences. To learn more about Dr. Geary, check out his webpage with the University of Missouri-Columbia at web.missouri.edu/~gearyd/ and a video interview on his latest research: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ybbIi3xf5cA.
Contact the Sausage of Science and Human Biology Association: Facebook: www.facebook.com/groups/humanbiologyassociation Website:humbio.org/, Twitter: @HumBioAssoc
Cara Ocobock, Website: sites.nd.edu/cara-ocobock/, Email:cocobock@nd.edu, Twitter:@CaraOcobock
Chris Lynn, HBA Public Relations Committee Chair, Website:cdlynn.people.ua.edu/, Email:cdlynn@ua.edu, Twitter:@Chris_Ly
Caroline Owens, Email: cowens8@emory.edu, Twitter: @careowens
Theresa Gildner, Email: Theresa.E.Gildner@dartmouth.edu, Twitter: @TEGildner
This week we continue our series featuring book excerpts read by previous podcast guests. In this episode, Dr. Rob Ruck, a professor of history at the University of Pittsburgh, reads a section from his book entitled “The Tropic of Football: The Long and Perilous Journey of Samoans to the NFL”. We then rebroadcast his original interview (SoS 37, aired in April 2019), in which Dr. Ruck discusses the intersections between sports, history, culture, and health.
You can learn more about Dr. Ruck’s work by visiting his website: http://robruck.com/index.php Email him at: rucco@pitt.edu
Contact the Sausage of Science and Human Biology Association: Facebook: www.facebook.com/groups/humanbiologyassociation Website:humbio.org/, Twitter: @HumBioAssoc
Cara Ocobock, Website: sites.nd.edu/cara-ocobock/, Email:cocobock@nd.edu, Twitter:@CaraOcobock
Chris Lynn, HBA Public Relations Committee Chair, Website:cdlynn.people.ua.edu/, Email:cdlynn@ua.edu, Twitter:@Chris_Ly
Caroline Owens, Email: cowens8@emory.edu, Twitter: @careowens
Theresa Gildner, Email: Theresa.E.Gildner@dartmouth.edu, Twitter: @TEGildner
Next up in our summer book series, Dr. Agustin Fuentes, an anthropologist now at Princeton University, will read a section from his latest book entitled “Why We Believe: Evolution and the Human Way of Being”. We then rebroadcast his original interview (SoS 48, aired in August 2019), in which Dr. Fuentes discusses returning from the field.
You can learn more about Dr. Fuentes' work by visiting his departmental website at Princeton: https://anthropology.princeton.edu/people/faculty/agustin-fuentes or his personal website: https://afuentes.com/.
To see more of his content, follow him on Twitter @Anthrofuentes.
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Chris Lynn, HBA Public Relations Committee Chair, Website:cdlynn.people.ua.edu/, Email:cdlynn@ua.edu, Twitter:@Chris_Ly
Caroline Owens, Email: cowens8@emory.edu, Twitter: @careowens
Theresa Gildner, Email: Theresa.E.Gildner@dartmouth.edu, Twitter: @TEGildner
We are still away on our summer break, but to tide you over this week we will continue our series featuring book excerpts read by previous podcast guests. This week Dr. Prosanta Chakrabarty, an ichthyologist from LSU, will read a section from his upcoming book entitled “Explaining Evolution and Understanding Why it Matters More than Ever”. We then rebroadcast his original interview (SoS 28, aired in November 2018), in which Dr. Chakrabarty discusses science communication and outreach, as well as narratives used to discuss topics like evolution.
You can learn more about Dr. Chakrabarty’s work by visiting his website: http://www.prosanta.net/ Email him at: prosanta@lsu.edu and follow him on Twitter @PREAUX_FISH
Contact the Sausage of Science and Human Biology Association: Facebook: www.facebook.com/groups/humanbiologyassociation Website:humbio.org/, Twitter: @HumBioAssoc
Cara Ocobock, Website: sites.nd.edu/cara-ocobock/, Email:cocobock@nd.edu, Twitter:@CaraOcobock
Chris Lynn, HBA Public Relations Committee Chair, Website:cdlynn.people.ua.edu/, Email:cdlynn@ua.edu, Twitter:@Chris_Ly
Caroline Owens, Email: cowens8@emory.edu, Twitter: @careowens
Theresa Gildner, Email: Theresa.E.Gildner@dartmouth.edu, Twitter: @TEGildner
This episode is the first in our special summer series which features author readings from recent books. Hear Dr. Lesley Jo Weaver read a chapter from her book “Sugar and Tension: Diabetes and Gender in Modern India.” After her reading, we re-air her original interview from one year ago. In that interview, Dr. Weaver shares stories of wire cutting and wisdom that range from the process of moving cross-country to identifying and working with sustainably developed NGOs. Her latest research project in India will be focusing on social stratification, mental health, and stigma. More information about her research can be found on the Department of International Studies at the University of Oregon website: https://intldept.uoregon.edu/profile/ljweaver/.
To get in touch with the “Speaking of Race” podcast, check out their website: http://speakingofrace.ua.edu/podcast.
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Cara Ocobock, Website: sites.nd.edu/cara-ocobock/, Email:cocobock@nd.edu, Twitter:@CaraOcobock
Chris Lynn, HBA Public Relations Committee Chair, Website:cdlynn.people.ua.edu/, Email:cdlynn@ua.edu, Twitter:@Chris_Ly
Caroline Owens, Email: cowens8@emory.edu, Twitter: @careowens
Theresa Gildner, Email: Theresa.E.Gildner@dartmouth.edu, Twitter: @TEGildner
This week Chris and Cara chat with Dr. Michael Gurven on a variety of topics, ranging from advice on finding a field site that matches your research interests, the long and challenging process of establishing a successful longitudinal study, the importance of true collaborative work with indigenous populations (especially in response to the COVID-19 pandemic), and the need to move beyond “WEIRD” populations and consider health and human biology in more diverse groups.
Learn more about Dr. Gurven’s work at his website: https://gurven.anth.ucsb.edu/ Email him at: gurven@anth.ucsb.edu and follow him on Twitter @MGurven
You can learn more about the Tsimane Health and Life History Project here: http://tsimane.anth.ucsb.edu/
Read the Tsimane team’s paper on responding to COVID-19 within indigenous populations here: https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(20)31104-1/fulltext
The paper “WEIRD bodies: mismatch, medicine and missing diversity” can be found here: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1090513820300465
Contact the Sausage of Science and Human Biology Association: Facebook: www.facebook.com/groups/humanbiologyassociation Website:humbio.org/, Twitter: @HumBioAssoc
Cara Ocobock, Website: sites.nd.edu/cara-ocobock/, Email:cocobock@nd.edu, Twitter:@CaraOcobock
Chris Lynn, HBA Public Relations Committee Chair, Website:cdlynn.people.ua.edu/, Email:cdlynn@ua.edu, Twitter:@Chris_Ly
Caroline Owens, Email: cowens8@emory.edu, Twitter: @careowens
Theresa Gildner, Email: Theresa.E.Gildner@dartmouth.edu, Twitter: @TEGildner
This week, Chris and Cara chat with Drs. Athena Aktipis, Assistant Professor of Psychology at Arizona State University, and Lee Cronk, Professor of Anthropology at Rutgers University, to discuss their research with the Human Generosity Project. As always, we get to hear about their research journies, interests, and collaborative efforts. Additionally, we get a sneak preview on their latest research on human generosity, cooperation, and COVID-19. Be sure to check out the Human Generosity Project website at: http://www.humangenerosity.org/ or on Twitter @generousnature. To learn more about Dr. Aktipis, check out her lab website at: http://www.aktipislab.org/ and learn more about Dr. Cronk at: https://anthro.rutgers.edu/people/full-time-faculty/detail/89-lee-cronk.
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Cara Ocobock, Website: sites.nd.edu/cara-ocobock/, Email:cocobock@nd.edu, Twitter:@CaraOcobock
Chris Lynn, HBA Public Relations Committee Chair, Website:cdlynn.people.ua.edu/, Email:cdlynn@ua.edu, Twitter:@Chris_Ly
Caroline Owens, Email: cowens8@emory.edu, Twitter: @careowens
Theresa Gildner, Email: Theresa.E.Gildner@dartmouth.edu, Twitter: @TEGildner
In this episode, Drs. Lance Gravlee and Connie Mulligan join Chris and Cara to discuss the research that led to their article, "Shortened telomere length is associated with unfair treatment attributed to race in African Americans living in Tallahassee, Florida". The article was selected as the special feature in Volume 32 Issue 3 of the American Journal of Human Biology. Drs. Gravlee and Mulligan discuss their paths to anthropology, collaboration, and ongoing work with the Health Equity Alliance Tallahassee (HEAT) steering committee. Be sure to check out the latest issue of AJHB to learn more about this project!
Learn more about Dr. Gravlee's work at his website: https://www.gravlee.org/ Follow him on Twitter @lancegravlee
Learn more about Dr. Mulligan's work on her departmental website: https://anthro.ufl.edu/2013/09/29/mulligan/
To learn more about HEAT, check out: http://www.healthequityalliance.org/projects/heart/.
Contact the Sausage of Science and Human Biology Association: Facebook: www.facebook.com/groups/humanbiologyassociation Website:humbio.org/, Twitter: @HumBioAssoc
Cara Ocobock, Website: sites.nd.edu/cara-ocobock/, Email:cocobock@nd.edu, Twitter:@CaraOcobock
Chris Lynn, HBA Public Relations Committee Chair, Website:cdlynn.people.ua.edu/, Email:cdlynn@ua.edu, Twitter:@Chris_Ly
Caroline Owens, Email: cowens8@emory.edu, Twitter: @careowens
Theresa Gildner, Email: Theresa.E.Gildner@dartmouth.edu, Twitter: @TEGildner
In this episode, Dr. Zaneta Thayer joins Chris and Cara to discuss her many projects examining the intergenerational effects of stressful experiences during pregnancy. Dr. Thayer works primarily in New Zealand, where her research has documented links between experienced discrimination and poor birth outcomes. She also discusses her recent clinical brief examining the health effects of psychosocial stress among individuals using assisted reproductive technologies. Finally, Dr. Thayer is joined by her postdoc Dr. Theresa Gildner to discuss their new project exploring how the COVID-19 pandemic is impacting maternity care and well-being.
Learn more about Dr. Thayer’s work at her website: https://sites.dartmouth.edu/humanbio/ Email her at: zaneta.marie.thayer@dartmouth.edu
Check out Dr. Thayer’s clinical brief on stress in ART at: https://academic.oup.com/emph/advance-article/doi/10.1093/emph/eoaa008/5815981
To learn more about the COVID-19 And Reproductive Effects (CARE) Study, please visit: https://sites.dartmouth.edu/care2020/
For those interested in the Dartmouth EEES graduate program, check out: https://sites.dartmouth.edu/EEES/
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Cara Ocobock, Website: sites.nd.edu/cara-ocobock/, Email:cocobock@nd.edu, Twitter:@CaraOcobock
Chris Lynn, HBA Public Relations Committee Chair, Website:cdlynn.people.ua.edu/, Email:cdlynn@ua.edu, Twitter:@Chris_Ly
Caroline Owens, Email: cowens8@emory.edu, Twitter: @careowens
Theresa Gildner, Email: Theresa.E.Gildner@dartmouth.edu, Twitter: @TEGildner
In this episode of the Sausage of Science, Cara and Chris talk with Drs. Jesús Rodriguez & Ana Mateos, scientists at the Centro Nacional de Investigación sobre la Evolución Humana (CENIEH) in Burgos, Spain. Drs. Rodriguez and Mateos highlight the amazing work going on at the center at the forefront of human evolution research. They also discuss their AJHB editor’s choice article entitled “No sex differences in the economy of load‐carriage”. Be sure to check out the article here: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/ajhb.23352
Their experimental work challenges long-held assumptions regarding sex differences in human energetics and contributes to both optimal foraging and life history theory.
Learn more about CENIEH here: https://www.cenieh.es/en/about-cenieh
Follow CENIEH on Twitter @CENIEH and the labs @CENIEH_Labs
You can learn more about Dr. Rodriguez at: https://www.cenieh.es/en/about-cenieh/staff/rodriguez-mendez-jesus
And about Dr. Mateos at: https://www.cenieh.es/en/about-cenieh/staff/mateos-cachorro-ana
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Cara Ocobock, Website: sites.nd.edu/cara-ocobock/, Email:cocobock@nd.edu, Twitter:@CaraOcobock
Chris Lynn, HBA Public Relations Committee Chair, Website:cdlynn.people.ua.edu/, Email:cdlynn@ua.edu, Twitter:@Chris_Ly
Caroline Owens, Email: cowens8@emory.edu, Twitter: @careowens
Theresa Gildner, Email: Theresa.E.Gildner@dartmouth.edu, Twitter: @TEGildner
This week, dive into one of our most meta-episodes yet: the podcast about a podcast featuring the amazing researchers behind the Anthrolactology blog and podcast! This interview features not one, but three cutting-edge anthropologists working at the intersections of anthropology, human lactation, and society. Dr. EA Quinn is an associate professor of biological anthropology at Washington University in St. Louis, Dr. Cecília Tomori is Director of Global Public Health and Community Health at Johns Hopkins School of Nursing, and Dr. Aunchalee Palmquist is an assistant professor of maternal and child health at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and when they come together, great things happen.
Be sure to check out the Anthrolactology blog/podcast at https://anthrolactology.com/.
In this episode we bring you a cross-over with the podcast “With a Side of Knowledge”, hosted by Ted Fox from the University of Notre Dame’s Provost Office. This interview features our own Dr. Cara Ocobock discussing her work over brunch. Enjoy this fascinating conversation about extreme cold adaptations, Neanderthals, the anthropology of sports, and (of course) powerlifting. Check out other episodes from With a Side of Knowledge, found here: https://provost.nd.edu/about/podcast/ This interview originally aired on APR 16, 2020.
This week, we're bringing you a cross-promotion with the awesome "The Arch & Anth Podcast", hosted by Dr. Michael Rivera. A bonus: this episode features our very own Dr. Chris Lynn! We hope that you enjoy hearing more about Chris' work on tattooing, immune response, and communication. Be sure to check out Dr. Rivera's other podcast episodes at: http://archandanth.com/. This interview originally aired on October 2, 2019.
This week on the Sausage of Science, Cara and Chris talk with Dr. Barry Bogin, a "big wig" in the field and Emeritus Professor at the University of Michigan-Dearborn and Loughborough University. Dr. Bogin discusses his work life-long work on human growth and development, along with the potential impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on birth weight outcomes. Check out his latest blog piece on the topic on the Museoa Ecologia Humana website at http://museoecologiahumana.org/en/piezas/covid-19-crisis-emotional-stress-2/. Dr. Bogin is particularly interested in the effects of social, economic, political, and emotional (SEPE) influences on differences in physical growth and health between Maya children living in Guatemala compared to those in the USA. One note, Dr. Bogin would like all budding students to know that when he mentions ‘calcitonin’ he meant to say ‘osteocalcin’ interactions with growth.
To pre-order or view the latest edition of "Patterns of Human Growth", go to https://www.cambridge.org/gb/academic/subjects/life-sciences/biological-anthropology-and-primatology/patterns-human-growth-3rd-edition?format=PB/.
To get in touch with Dr. Bogin, send him an email at B.A.Bogin@lboro.ac.uk.
You can also check out his website at https://www.lboro.ac.uk/departments/ssehs/staff/barry-bogin/.
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Chris Lynn, HBA Public Relations Committee Chair, Website:cdlynn.people.ua.edu/, Email:cdlynn@ua.edu, Twitter:@Chris_Ly
Caroline Owens, Email: cowens8@emory.edu, Twitter: @careowens
Theresa Gildner, Email: Theresa.E.Gildner@dartmouth.edu, Twitter: @TEGildner
This week on the Sausage of Science, Cara and Chris talk with Dr. Aaron Blackwell, an Associate Professor of Anthropology at Washington State University. In this far-ranging conversation, Dr. Blackwell discusses his work quantifying life history tradeoffs and his multi-inheritance approach to human behavioral ecology. He also shares some tips for using existing datasets and working remotely to support study participants during the pandemic.
Follow Dr. Blackwell on Twitter @AaronDBlackwell, https://twitter.com/AaronDBlackwell
You can also check out his website at https://blackwell-lab.com/
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Cara Ocobock, Website: sites.nd.edu/cara-ocobock/, Email:cocobock@nd.edu, Twitter:@CaraOcobock
Chris Lynn, HBA Public Relations Committee Chair, Website:cdlynn.people.ua.edu/, Email:cdlynn@ua.edu, Twitter:@Chris_Ly
Caroline Owens, Email: cowens8@emory.edu, Twitter: @careowens
Theresa Gildner, Email: Theresa.E.Gildner@dartmouth.edu, Twitter: @TEGildner
In this episode of the Sausage of Science, Cara and Chris talk with Dr. Pablo Nepomnaschy, an Associate Professor of Health Sciences at Simon Fraser University. Dr. Nepomnaschy discusses his transformation into a researcher who focuses on involving participant communities at all phases of project planning and execution. He also shares his experience advising international students, as someone who has experienced both sides of that interaction.
Follow Dr. Nepomnaschy on Twitter @PabloNepomnasc1 or on ResearchGate at https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Pablo_Nepomnaschy
You can also check out his website http://www.sfu.ca/~pan2/ or email him at pablo_nepomnaschy@sfu.ca
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Cara Ocobock, Website: sites.nd.edu/cara-ocobock/, Email:cocobock@nd.edu, Twitter:@CaraOcobock
Chris Lynn, HBA Public Relations Committee Chair, Website:cdlynn.people.ua.edu/, Email:cdlynn@ua.edu, Twitter:@Chris_Ly
Caroline Owens, Email: cowens8@emory.edu, Twitter: @careowens
Theresa Gildner, Email: Theresa.E.Gildner@dartmouth.edu, Twitter: @TEGildner
This week's episode features a myriad of topics including niche construction, semiotics, hats ravaged by monkeys, and meaning-making between humans and dogs- all courtesy of Dr. Jeffrey Peterson. Dr. Peterson is a postdoctoral fellow in the anthropology department at Notre Dame. His research addresses the interplay between intra- and inter-group social relationships, as well as the impact of interacting with humans.
Follow Dr. Peterson on twitter @primatologeist, and check out his webpage with the University of Notre Dame https://anthropology.nd.edu/faculty-and-staff/faculty-by-alpha/jeffrey-peterson/.
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Cara Ocobock, Website: sites.nd.edu/cara-ocobock/, Email:cocobock@nd.edu, Twitter:@CaraOcobock
Chris Lynn, HBA Public Relations Committee Chair, Website:cdlynn.people.ua.edu/, Email:cdlynn@ua.edu, Twitter:@Chris_Ly
Caroline Owens, Email: cowens8@emory.edu, Twitter: @careowens
Theresa Gildner, Email: Theresa.E.Gildner@dartmouth.edu, Twitter: @TEGildner
This week on the Sausage of Science, Cara and Chris talk with Dr. Sam Urlacher, an assistant professor at Baylor University. Dr. Urlacher discusses his work examining life history tradeoffs and energetic constraints among Shuar children of Amazonian Ecuador. In addition, he answers questions about possible links between COVID-19 and child development patterns, and also gives some advice on starting a new tenure-track position.
Follow Dr. Urlacher on twitter @SSUrlacher, and check out his website https://scholar.harvard.edu/samuel_s_urlacher/home
You can find the papers referenced in the episode here: “Constraint and tradeoffs regulate energy expenditure during childhood” https://advances.sciencemag.org/content/5/12/eaax1065
“Tradeoffs between immune function and childhood growth among Amazonian forager-horticulturalists” https://www.pnas.org/content/115/17/E3914
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Michaela Howells, Public Relations Committee Chair, Email: howellsm@uncw.edu
Cara Ocobock, Website: sites.nd.edu/cara-ocobock/, Email:cocobock@nd.edu, Twitter:@CaraOcobock
Chris Lynn, Website:cdlynn.people.ua.edu/, Email:cdlynn@ua.edu, Twitter:@Chris_Ly
Caroline Owens, Email: cowens8@emory.edu, Twitter: @careowens
Theresa Gildner, Email: Theresa.E.Gildner@dartmouth.edu, Twitter: @TEGildner
In this episode, Dr. Tanya Lurhmann joins Chris and Cara to discuss her life's work as an "anthropologist of the human relationship with invisible others". Dr. Lurhmann is the Watkins University Professor of Anthropology at Stanford University. Her work has been featured in The New York Times, The New Yorker, The New York Review of Books, and many other publications. She is the author of When God Talks Back: Understanding the American Evangelical Relationship with God. To learn more about Dr. Lurhmann, send her an email at luhrmann@stanford.edu, or check out her personal website at http://luhrmann.net/.
Contact the Sausage of Science and Human Biology Association: Facebook: www.facebook.com/groups/humanbiologyassociation Website:humbio.org/, Twitter: @HumBioAssoc
Michaela Howells, Public Relations Committee Chair, Email: howellsm@uncw.edu
Cara Ocobock, Website: sites.nd.edu/cara-ocobock/, Email:cocobock@nd.edu, Twitter:@CaraOcobock
Chris Lynn, Website:cdlynn.people.ua.edu/, Email:cdlynn@ua.edu, Twitter:@Chris_Ly
Caroline Owens, Email: cowens8@emory.edu, Twitter: @careowens
Theresa Gildner, Email: Theresa.E.Gildner@dartmouth.edu, Twitter: @TEGildner
This week Cara and Chris chat with Dr. Eileen Hebets, a Professor of Biological Sciences at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Dr. Hebets discusses her research on spider communication and how these same techniques can be applied to better understand communication in humans and other animals.
Follow Dr. Hebets on twitter @hebets_lab, on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/eileen.hebets, and check out her lab website at http://hebetslab.unl.edu/
You can find the papers referenced in the episode here:
“A systems approach to animal communication”, https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/pdf/10.1098/rspb.2015.2889
“Complex signal function: Developing a framework of testable hypotheses”, https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1021&context=bioscihebets
Also, enjoy this spider dance video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xYIUFEQeh3g
Contact the Sausage of Science and Human Biology Association: Facebook: www.facebook.com/groups/humanbiologyassociation Website:humbio.org/, Twitter: @HumBioAssoc
Michaela Howells, Public Relations Committee Chair, Email: howellsm@uncw.edu
Cara Ocobock, Website: sites.nd.edu/cara-ocobock/, Email:cocobock@nd.edu, Twitter:@CaraOcobock
Chris Lynn, Website:cdlynn.people.ua.edu/, Email:cdlynn@ua.edu, Twitter:@Chris_Ly
Caroline Owens, Email: cowens8@emory.edu, Twitter: @careowens
Theresa Gildner, Email: Theresa.E.Gildner@dartmouth.edu, Twitter: @TEGildner
In this installment of our #Hackademics series, Dr. Kate Clancy, Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Illinois, shares her work on the SAFE13 project and provides advice for dealing with harassment in academia. Dr. Clancy's work has had significant policy ramifications, exemplified by her Congressional testimony and co-authorship on a National Academies report on sexual harassment of women in STEM. Broadly, Dr. Clancy's research centers on issues of reproductive justice. To learn more about her, check out her website:http://kateclancy.com/ or follow her on twitter @KateClancy.
Check out the papers referenced in the episode here: "Sexual Harassment of Women: Climate, Culture, and Consequences in Academic Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine" https://www.nationalacademies.org/our-work/sexual-harassment-in-academia
"Survey of Academic Field Experiences (SAFE): Trainees Report Harassment and Assault" https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0102172
Additionally, learn more about the 21st Century Scientists Working Group mentioned in the episode here: https://21centurysci.beckman.illinois.edu/.
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Michaela Howells, Public Relations Committee Chair, Email: howellsm@uncw.edu
Cara Ocobock, Website: sites.nd.edu/cara-ocobock/, Email:cocobock@nd.edu, Twitter:@CaraOcobock
Chris Lynn, Website:cdlynn.people.ua.edu/, Email:cdlynn@ua.edu, Twitter:@Chris_Ly
Caroline Owens, Email: cowens8@emory.edu, Twitter: @careowens
Theresa Gildner, Email: Theresa.E.Gildner@dartmouth.edu, Twitter: @TEGildner
Dr. Rebecca Gibson, a visiting Assistant Professor at the University of Notre Dame, shares her fascinating research on the history of corsets in this week’s episode. Dr. Gibson’s primary research examines changes in the skeletal structure of women who wore corsets between 1700-1900 CE. She also discusses her work exploring the romantic and sexual entanglements of AI and robotics in science-fiction.
Follow Dr. Gibson on twitter @RGibsongirl and check out her author’s page at https://www.facebook.com/TheCorsetedSkeleton.
Check out the paper and book referenced in the episode here:
Article: “Effects of long term corseting on the female skeleton: a preliminary morphological examination” https://www.academia.edu/16410795/Effects_of_Long_Term_Corseting_on_the_Female_Skeleton_A_Preliminary_Morphological_Examination
Book: “Desire in the Age of Robots and AI” https://www.palgrave.com/gp/book/9783030240165
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Michaela Howells, Public Relations Committee Chair, Email: howellsm@uncw.edu
Cara Ocobock, Website: sites.nd.edu/cara-ocobock/, Email:cocobock@nd.edu, Twitter:@CaraOcobock
Chris Lynn, Website:cdlynn.people.ua.edu/, Email:cdlynn@ua.edu, Twitter:@Chris_Ly
Caroline Owens, Email: cowens8@emory.edu, Twitter: @careowens
Theresa Gildner, Email: Theresa.E.Gildner@dartmouth.edu, Twitter: @TEGildner
"We can talk about the good side of science, but what about the underbelly of science"
This week on the Sausage of Science, Chris and Cara chat with Dr. Jon Marks, a Professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. Dr. Marks discusses his path from genetic to anthropology, his passion for book reviews, and his research. They also discuss a few topics from his talk at Notre Dame on "the four myths of Darwinism". Tune in to find out more about the modern myths of science that you may encounter in your classrooms and research.
To learn more about Dr. Marks website at: https://webpages.uncc.edu/~jmarks/.
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Michaela Howells, Public Relations Committee Chair, Email: howellsm@uncw.edu
Cara Ocobock, Website: sites.nd.edu/cara-ocobock/, Email:cocobock@nd.edu, Twitter:@CaraOcobock
Chris Lynn, Website:cdlynn.people.ua.edu/, Email:cdlynn@ua.edu, Twitter:@Chris_Ly
Caroline Owens, Email: cowens8@emory.edu, Twitter: @careowens
Theresa Gildner, Email: Theresa.E.Gildner@dartmouth.edu, Twitter: @TEGildner
This week on the Sausage of Science, Chris and Cara chat with Dr. Alice Yao, an Associate Professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Chicago. They discuss Dr. Yao's archaeological work exploring how genetic markers have been (mis)applied to assess the evolution of lactase persistence. This work has important implications for how lactase persistence is talked about in the current political climate.
Contact Dr. Yao at ayao@uchicago.edu Or visit her website at: https://aliceyaoresearch.wordpress.com/
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Michaela Howells, Public Relations Committee Chair, Email: howellsm@uncw.edu
Cara Ocobock, Website: sites.nd.edu/cara-ocobock/, Email:cocobock@nd.edu, Twitter:@CaraOcobock
Chris Lynn, Website:cdlynn.people.ua.edu/, Email:cdlynn@ua.edu, Twitter:@Chris_Ly
Caroline Owens, Email: cowens8@emory.edu, Twitter: @careowens
Theresa Gildner, Email: Theresa.E.Gildner@dartmouth.edu, Twitter: @TEGildner
In this episode of the Sausage of Science we explore issues surrounding mental health in academia with Dr. Rebecca Lester. Dr. Lester is interested in how people understand and experience existential distress, as well as the institutions and practices that arise to address this distress. Here she shares her insights for ways mentors can better support the well-being of graduate students.
Follow Dr. Lester on twitter @psychanthro, visit her website at https://rebeccalester.com/, or email her at RJLESTER@WUSTL.EDU
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Michaela Howells, Public Relations Committee Chair, Email: howellsm@uncw.edu
Cara Ocobock, Website: sites.nd.edu/cara-ocobock/, Email:cocobock@nd.edu, Twitter:@CaraOcobock
Chris Lynn, Website:cdlynn.people.ua.edu/, Email:cdlynn@ua.edu, Twitter:@Chris_Ly
Caroline Owens, Email: cowens8@emory.edu, Twitter: @careowens
Theresa Gildner, Email: Theresa.E.Gildner@dartmouth.edu, Twitter: @TEGildner
In this week’s episode Dr. Maria Nieves-Colón, an anthropological geneticist, discusses how she uses both ancient DNA and modern genomics tools to examine human population history in the Caribbean and Latin America. Dr. Nieves-Colón is affiliated with the School of Human Evolution and Social Change at Arizona State University and works as Senior Scientist with Claret Bioscience in Santa Cruz, CA.
Follow Dr. Nieves-Colón on twitter @mitopr or email her at mnievesc@asu.edu
Check out the papers referenced in the episode here:
Ancient DNA reconstructs the genetic legacies of pre-contact Puerto Rico communities - https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/765685v1.abstract
Genetic diversity in populations across Latin America: implications for population and medical genetic studies - https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0959437X18300935
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Water pirates, stigma, and books to come- this episode has a little bit of everything. This episode is a special feature with Drs. Alex Brewis and Amber Wutich, both President’s Professors in the School of Human Evolution and Social Change at Arizona State University. We are fortunate to have them on to discuss the upcoming American Journal of Human Biology special feature on water insecurity. Drs. Brewis and Wutich discuss their paths to researching water, stigma, and becoming a writing/researching duo. Be sure to check out the latest AJHB issue: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/15206300. Additionally, check out their latest book, "Lazy, Crazy, and Disgusting: Stigma and the Undoing of Global Health" and check out their websites for their upcoming projects: http://amberwutich.org/ and http://alexbrewis.org/about-alex/. To get in touch with Dr. Brewis, send her an email at Alex.Brewis@asu.edu or follow her on twitter @brewis_alex. To get in touch with Dr. Wutich, send her an email at Amber.Wutich@asu.edu or follow her on twitter @AWutich.
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Dr. Caity Placek, an assistant professor of anthropology at Ball State University, gives us "something to chew on" with this week's episode! Dr. Placek talks about her origin story and her recent work in India examining tobacco use among women of reproductive age. To find out more about Dr. Placek's latest project, "Healthy Moms, Healthy Communities", check out the project's website: https://anthroimmersive.wixsite.com/ballstate. You can check out some of the photos Dr. Placek discusses on the Human Biology Association twitter page!
The Sausage of Science is produced by Cara Ocobock and Chris Lynn, with assistance from Junior Service Fellow Caroline Owens for the Public Relations Committee of the Human Biology Association. The song in the soundbed is “Always Lyin’” by the Morning Shakes.
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Chris and Cara chat with Dr. NIcky Hawley, an assistant professor of anthropology and epidemiology at Yale School of Medicine. Dr. Hawley's work focuses on the intergenerational transmission of chronic disease in Samoa, American Samoa, and South Africa. In this episode, she chats with Chris and Cara about her work with the Genome-Wide Association Study of Adiposity in Samoa. Her interview sheds light on ethical considerations and the possibilities of political and community engagement within the sciences. To contact Dr. Hawley, check out her website with Yale https://medicine.yale.edu/profile/nicola_hawley/ or her page with the OLAGA Samoan study group at https://publichealth.yale.edu/olaga/ or on facebook at https://www.facebook.com/YaleOlaga/.
The Sausage of Science is produced by Cara Ocobock and Chris Lynn, with assistance from Junior Service Fellow Caroline Owens for the Public Relations Committee of the Human Biology Association. The song in the soundbed is “Always Lyin’” by the Morning Shakes.
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Chris Lynn, Website:cdlynn.people.ua.edu/, Email:cdlynn@ua.edu, Twitter:@Chris_Ly
Caroline Owens, Email: cowens8@emory.edu, Twitter: @careowens
The latest episode of the Sausage of Science Hackademics delves into the American Journal of Human Biology with the new editor, Dr. Bill Leonard. Dr. Leonard discusses his vision for the future of the journal, the reviewing process, and new plans for science communication. To learn more about AJHB, check out the journal website through Wiley at https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/15206300. To learn more about Dr. Leonard, listen to his first episode with us, SoS 16 at https://soundcloud.com/humanbiologyassociation/sos16-biocultural-implications-of-soviet-collapse-other-stories-with-bill-leonard-part-b, or his departmental website athttps://www.anthropology.northwestern.edu/people/faculty/leonard.html.
The Sausage of Science is produced by Cara Ocobock and Chris Lynn, with assistance from Junior Service Fellow Caroline Owens for the Public Relations Committee of the Human Biology Association. The song in the soundbed is “Always Lyin’” by the Morning Shakes.
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Caroline Owens, Email: cowens8@emory.edu, Twitter: @careowens
Dr. Frank Marlowe passed away on September 25, 2019. Marlowe has had an immense impact on our field through both his work with the Hadza and his mentorship. In this episode, we honor him and celebrate his life and work by interviewing two of his former students, Dr. Alyssa Crittenden and Dr. Peter Gray. To learn more about Marlowe's legacy, see the archive organized by colleagues and family at https://frankmarlowearchive.com/, as well as the memorial published in Human Nature at https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12110-019-09357-1.
To learn more about Dr. Alyssa Crittenden, check out her webpage at the University of Nevada at Las Vegas: https://www.unlv.edu/people/alyssa-crittenden or follow her on twitter @an_crittenden. To learn more about Dr. Peter Gray, check out his webpage at the University of Nevada at Las Vegas: https://www.unlv.edu/people/peter-gray or follow him on twitter @peterbgray.
The Sausage of Science is produced by Cara Ocobock and Chris Lynn, with assistance from Junior Service Fellow Caroline Owens for the Public Relations Committee of the Human Biology Association. The song in the soundbed is “Always Lyin’” by the Morning Shakes.
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Chris Lynn, Website:cdlynn.people.ua.edu/, Email:cdlynn@ua.edu, Twitter:@Chris_Ly
Caroline Owens, Email: cowens8@emory.edu, Twitter: @careowens
This week on the Sausage of Science, Chris and Cara chat with Dr. Jessica Hardin, an assistant professor of sociology and anthropology at Rochester Institue of Technology. Dr. Hardin's work focuses on the intersection of medicine and religion shapes lived experiences of chronic illness. In this episode, she chats with Chris and Cara about her work on religion and health in Samoa and the Samoan diaspora. Her latest book, "Faith and the Pursuit of Health: Cardiometabolic Disorders in Samoa" discusses this work in depth. To contact Dr. Hardin, check out her website with RIT https://www.rit.edu/directory/jahgss-jessica-hardin or her personal webpage http://jessica-hardin.com/about.
The Sausage of Science is produced by Cara Ocobock and Chris Lynn, with assistance from Junior Service Fellow Caroline Owens for the Public Relations Committee of the Human Biology Association. The song in the soundbed is “Always Lyin’” by the Morning Shakes.
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Chris Lynn, Website:cdlynn.people.ua.edu/, Email:cdlynn@ua.edu, Twitter:@Chris_Ly
Caroline Owens, Email: cowens8@emory.edu, Twitter: @careowens
This week on our next installment of Hackademics, we discuss pedagogical practices in higher education with Dr. Susan Blum. This episode delves into classroom practices to promote learning, from (un)grading to physical environments. Dr. Blum is Professor of Anthropology at Notre Dame, whose research focuses on the big question, "What does the world look and feel like to people, and what are the factors that shaped those views?". Dr. Blum has also spent years reading and writing about learning and teaching practices, applying anthropological perspectives to the classroom. To learn more about her, check out her university webpage https://anthropology.nd.edu/faculty-and-staff/faculty-by-alpha/susan-blum/, send her Susan.Blum.24@nd.edu an email at afuentes@nd.edu, or follow her on Twitter @SusanDebraBlum. Additional resources to learn more about learning and teaching include the Vanderbilt Center for Teaching website at https://cft.vanderbilt.edu/ or the Michigan Center for Research on Learning and Teaching at http://www.crlt.umich.edu/, as well as Dr. Blum's book, "I love learning; I hate school.": An Anthropology of College.
The Sausage of Science is produced by Cara Ocobock and Chris Lynn, with assistance from Junior Service Fellow Caroline Owens for the Public Relations Committee of the Human Biology Association. The song in the soundbed is “Always Lyin’” by the Morning Shakes.
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This week on the Sausage of Science, Chris and Cara chat with Dr. David Sloan Wilson, Distinguished Professor of Evolutionary Biology and Anthropology at SUNY Binghamton. Dr. Wilson is a prolific scholar and has written widely on topics including natural selection, the evolution of ecological communities, and human evolutionary biology. In this episode, he chats with Chris and Cara about his theoretical work, evolutionary studies outreach, and his approach to writing and research. To learn more about Dr. Wilson, check out his departmental website: https://www.binghamton.edu/biology/people/profile.html?id=dwilson, his profile for The Evolution Institue https://evolution-institute.org/profile/david-sloan-wilson/, and follow him on twitter @David_S_Wilson.
The Sausage of Science is produced by Cara Ocobock and Chris Lynn, with assistance from Junior Service Fellow Caroline Owens for the Public Relations Committee of the Human Biology Association. The song in the soundbed is “Always Lyin’” by the Morning Shakes.
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This week on the Sausage of Science, we showcase our latest installment in our series, "Hackademics". We are so excited to be joined by Kate Wong, a science communication extraordinaire and journalist for Scientific American. Kate shares her journey with writing science for the public, as well as some of her favorite pieces so far. Additionally, she provides great advice for researchers interested in writing for broader audiences. To learn more about Kate, you can find her on Twitter @katewong or check out her stories with Scientific American at https://www.scientificamerican.com/author/kate-wong/.
The Sausage of Science is produced by Cara Ocobock and Chris Lynn, with assistance from Junior Service Fellow Caroline Owens for the Public Relations Committee of the Human Biology Association. The song in the soundbed is “Always Lyin’” by the Morning Shakes.
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Caroline Owens, Email: cowens8@emory.edu, Twitter: @careowens
Dr. Napoleon Chagnon passed away on September 29 of this year. Chagnon has had an immense impact on our field through both his work and mentorship. Chagnon is well-known for his extensive work among the Yanomamo. In this episode, we honor him and celebrate his life and work by interviewing one of his long-time colleague, Dr. Raymond Hames.
To learn more about Dr. Hames, check out his webpage at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln https://www.unl.edu/rhames/raymond-hames-professor-anthropology.
The Sausage of Science is produced by Cara Ocobock and Chris Lynn, with assistance from Junior Service Fellow Caroline Owens for the Public Relations Committee of the Human Biology Association. The song in the soundbed is “Always Lyin’” by the Morning Shakes.
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Caroline Owens, Email: cowens8@emory.edu, Twitter: @careowens
This week on the Sausage of Science, Chris and Cara chat with Jennifer Cullin, a doctoral student in the department of anthropology at Indiana University Bloomington. At IU Bloomington, Jennifer's research focuses on fat bias and the relationship between statistical norms and cultural norms. During her first year as a graduate student, she co-authored, "What Do Anthropologists Mean When They Use the Term Biocultural?"Her dissertation research documents the obesity prevalence and externalizing and internalizing fat bias among two populations in Indiana. In this episode, she chats with Chris and Cara about biocultural anthropology and the preliminary findings of her dissertation work. To contact Jennifer, send her an email at jcullin@indiana.edu or connect with her on Twitter @jennifermcullin.
The Sausage of Science is produced by Cara Ocobock and Chris Lynn, with assistance from Junior Service Fellow Caroline Owens for the Public Relations Committee of the Human Biology Association. The song in the soundbed is “Always Lyin’” by the Morning Shakes.
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Caroline Owens, Email: cowens8@emory.edu, Twitter: @careowens
On this week's #Hackademics installment, Chris and Cara chat with Adam Johnson, a former UNCC lecturer and current graduate student at UT San Antonio. #Hacakdemics aims to bring to light under-discussed issues in academics; this week, we cover an increasingly common phenomenon: school shootings. In this episode, Adam shares his personal experience with a fatal shooting in his UNCC class. We are so grateful to Adam for sharing his time and his story with us. To learn more about Adam, check out his blog Anthropology365 at https://anthropology365.com/about/. To get in touch with him, follow him on Twitter @Anthropology365 or send him an email at adam.johnson2@utsa.edu.
This week on the Sausage of Science, Chris and Cara chat with Tina Lasisi, a doctoral student in the department of anthropology at Penn State University. At Penn State, Tina's research focuses on human evolution, variation in hair morphology and pigmentation, and social justice issues that intersect with her research. In this episode, she chats with Chris and Cara about advancing the study of human variation in hair morphology, moving beyond racial categorizations of hair in forensic anthropology, and her future research goals. To contact Tina, send her an email at tpl5158@psu.edu or connect with her on Twitter or Instagram @TinaLasisi.
The Sausage of Science is produced by Cara Ocobock and Chris Lynn, with assistance from Junior Service Fellow Caroline Owens for the Public Relations Committee of the Human Biology Association. The song in the soundbed is “Always Lyin’” by the Morning Shakes.
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C. Loring Brace passed away on September 7 of this year. Brace has had an immense impact on our field through both his work and mentorship. In this episode, we honor him and celebrate his life and work by interviewing one of his former students, Dr. Shelley Smith.
This podcast features topics from Dr. Smith's article, "Single (sub)species then and now: An examination of the non- racial perspective of C. Loring Brace", published as part of the AJPA yearbook series. To learn more about Dr. Smith, check out her webpage at the University of Texas at Arlington https://mentis.uta.edu/explore/profile/shelley-smith.
The Sausage of Science is produced by Cara Ocobock and Chris Lynn, with assistance from Junior Service Fellow Caroline Owens for the Public Relations Committee of the Human Biology Association. The song in the soundbed is “Always Lyin’” by the Morning Shakes.
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Dr. Young is an internationally recognized expert on impostor syndrome. Her clients include such diverse organizations as Apple, Boeing, Merck, IBM, Intel, Facebook, Microsoft, Chrysler, BP, Blizzard Entertainment, Procter & Gamble, Merck, McDonald’s (Europe), Google, NASA, the USStates embassy in Canada, Society of Women Engineers,the National Cancer Institute, the Conference Board, and many more. Additionally, she’s spoken at over 85 colleges and universities including Harvard, Princeton, Stanford, MIT, Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology, and Oxford. She also spoke at Cornell University Men of Color in STEM Symposium. Valerie is author of the award-winning book, The Secret Thoughts of Successful Women: Why Capable People Suffer from Impostor Syndrome and How to Thrive in Spite of It (Random House) now available in six languages and her advice to both men and women has appeared in dozens of major media outlets from India to Brazil including BBC radio, CNN Money, Time, Newsweek, Science,the Daily Mail, the Sydney Morning Herald, and many more.No stranger to the corporate world, Valerie spent seven years in management in a Fortune 100 company before founding ImpostorSyndrome.com.
The Sausage of Science is produced by Cara Ocobock and Chris Lynn, with assistance from Junior Service Fellow Caroline Owens for the Public Relations Committee of the Human Biology Association. The song in the soundbed is “Always Lyin’” by the Morning Shakes.
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Chris Lynn, Website:cdlynn.people.ua.edu/, Email:cdlynn@ua.edu, Twitter:@Chris_Ly
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This week on the Sausage of Science, Chris and Cara chat with Jelena Jankovic, this year’s recipient of the HBA Phyllis Eveleth Award for Outstanding Graduate Presentation or Poster. Jelena's poster titled, "Forced migration and chronic stress: A study of traumatic experiences, mental health, and cortisol among refugees in Serbia" was one of over 100 posters at the 2019 Conference. As a biocultural anthropologist, Jelena's research focuses on migrant and refugee studies as well as human biology. In this episode, she chats with Chris and Cara about her work in Serbia, the science behind fingernail clippings, and her future research goals. To contact Jelena, send her an email at jjankovi@nd.edu or learn more about her research by visiting her Notre Dame webpage: https://anthropology.nd.edu/graduate-program/current-graduate-students/all-graduate-students/jelena-jankovic-rankovic/.
The Sausage of Science is produced by Cara Ocobock and Chris Lynn, with assistance from Junior Service Fellow Caroline Owens for the Public Relations Committee of the Human Biology Association. The song in the soundbed is “Always Lyin’” by the Morning Shakes.
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Chris Lynn, Website:cdlynn.people.ua.edu/, Email:cdlynn@ua.edu, Twitter:@Chris_Ly
Caroline Owens, Email: cowens8@emory.edu, Twitter: @careowens
This week on the Sausage of Science, we are debuting our new series installment, "Hackademics". In this miniseries, we are going to be talking about under-discussed issues in academia, including imposter syndrome, mental health, and navigating hostile research environments. We are thrilled to start this series with Dr. Agustin Fuentes, the Edmund P. Joyce C.S.C. Professor of Anthropology at the University of Notre Dame. Dr. Fuentes shares his own personal experience coming back (or, at least, attempting to) from his doctoral research. Additionally, he shares his advice for navigating this experience as a student, as well as ways that mentors and departments can provide more support for post-field students. Currently, Dr. Fuentes' research explores the roles of creativity and imagination in human evolution, multispecies anthropology, evolutionary theory, and the structures of race and racism. To learn more about him email him, check out his university webpage https://anthropology.nd.edu/faculty-and-staff/faculty-by-alpha/agustin-fuentes/, send him an email at afuentes@nd.edu, or follow him on twitter @AnthroFuentes.
The Sausage of Science is produced by Cara Ocobock and Chris Lynn, with assistance from Junior Service Fellow Caroline Owens for the Public Relations Committee of the Human Biology Association. The song in the soundbed is “Always Lyin’” by the Morning Shakes.
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Chris Lynn, Website:cdlynn.people.ua.edu/, Email:cdlynn@ua.edu, Twitter:@Chris_Ly
Caroline Owens, Email: cowens8@emory.edu, Twitter: @careowens
This week on the Sausage of Science, Chris and Cara chat with Dr. Patricia Wright, a tropical biologist, conservationist, and primatologist at Stony Brook University. Dr. Wright shares her delightful origin story, involving a rock concert and night monkey in New York, in addition to her decades-long experience working with non-human primates in various regions, and words of wisdom for the future of our planet. To learn more about Dr. Wright, check out her webpage at https://www.patwrightlab.net/pat-wright.html, and find her research team, Centre ValBio, at https://www.stonybrook.edu/commcms/centre-valbio/index.html or on twitter @CentreValBio.
The Sausage of Science is produced by Cara Ocobock and Chris Lynn, with assistance from Junior Service Fellow Caroline Owens for the Public Relations Committee of the Human Biology Association. The song in the soundbed is “Always Lyin’” by the Morning Shakes. Contact the Sausage of Science and Human Biology Association: Facebook: www.facebook.com/groups/humanbiologyassociation Website:humbio.org/, Twitter: @HumBioAssoc
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Cara Ocobock, Website: https://sites.nd.edu/cara-ocobock/, Email:cocobock@nd.edu, Twitter:@CaraOcobock
Chris Lynn, Website:cdlynn.people.ua.edu/, Email:cdlynn@ua.edu, Twitter:@Chris_Ly
Caroline Owens, Email: cowens8@emory.edu, Twitter: @careowens
This week on the Sausage of Science, Chris and Cara chat with this year’s recipient of the HBA Phyllis Eveleth Award for Outstanding Graduate Presentation or Poster for her talk entitled, "The flexibility of fetal tolerance: immune function during pregnancy varies between two ecologically distinct populations". Carmen is a doctoral student at the University of California Santa Barbara where she researches maternal health, immune function throughout pregnancy, and developmental origins of health and disease. Carmen shares the findings of her research, discusses life as a graduate student and her future aims with her dissertation project. To learn more about Carmen's work, check out her blog at https://theinformalscientist.com/, send her an email at carmenhove@umail.ucsb.edu, or follow her on Twitter @CarmenHove.
The Sausage of Science is produced by Cara Ocobock and Chris Lynn, with assistance from Junior Service Fellow Caroline Owens for the Public Relations Committee of the Human Biology Association. The song in the soundbed is “Always Lyin’” by the Morning Shakes.
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Chris Lynn, Website:cdlynn.people.ua.edu/, Email:cdlynn@ua.edu, Twitter:@Chris_Ly
Caroline Owens, Email: cowens8@emory.edu, Twitter: @careowens
Check out our newly updated short format episode with anthropologist and cohost extraordinaire Dr. Cara Ocobock.
Dr. Cara Ocobock is now an Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of Notre Dame and is actively looking for graduate students to become a part of her research team! Chris suggested the idea of this interview to Cara, who liked it, so we turned on the recorder and did an impromptu interview on the spot. Cara’s piece that we discuss is “Body fat attenuates muscle mass catabolism among physically active humans in temperate and cold high altitude environments” in the September/October 2017 issue (Volume 29, Issue 5).
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The song in the soundbed is “Always Lyin’” by the Morning Shakes.
This week on the Sausage of Science, Chris and Cara chat with Dr. Sarah Lacy, a researcher at California State University Dominguez Hills. Dr. Lacy is a biological anthropologist who explores differential frequencies of caries, periodontal disease, and antemortem tooth loss in Neandertals and early modern humans. In addition to her paleoanthropological pursuits, Dr. Lacy is involved in science outreach and social justice. In this episode, she discusses her path to anthropology, her research, and the merger of her academic aims and community activism. To learn more about Dr. Lacy, check out her webpages at: https://www.csudh.edu/anthropology/faculty/sarah-lacy, www.sarahlacyphd.com, and find her on instagram @hothomininotd. Check out her song of the week, Little Dragon's "After the Rain": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e76XKGCTg14 .
The Sausage of Science is produced by Cara Ocobock and Chris Lynn, with assistance from Junior Service Fellow Caroline Owens for the Public Relations Committee of the Human Biology Association. The song in the soundbed is “Always Lyin’” by the Morning Shakes. Contact the Sausage of Science and Human Biology Association: Facebook: www.facebook.com/groups/humanbiologyassociation Website:humbio.org/, Twitter: @HumBioAssoc
Michaela Howells, Public Relations Committee Chair, Email: howellsm@uncw.edu
Cara Ocobock, Website: https://sites.nd.edu/cara-ocobock/, Email:cocobock@nd.edu, Twitter:@CaraOcobock
Chris Lynn, Website:cdlynn.people.ua.edu/, Email:cdlynn@ua.edu, Twitter:@Chris_Ly
Caroline Owens, Email: cowens8@emory.edu, Twitter: @careowens
This week on the Sausage of Science, Chris and Cara chat with Dr. Eric Shattuck, a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Texas, San Antonio who is also affiliated with the Institute for Health Disparities Research. Dr. Shattuck is a biocultural anthropologist whose research connects hormones, health, and behavior in humans. Dr. Shattuck discusses his interest in sickness behavior, evolutionary medicine, and some of his exciting new projects. To learn more about Dr. Shattuck, check out his webpage https://sites.google.com/view/ericshattuck/home, email him at eric.shattuck@utsa.edu, or follow him on twitter @eric_shattuck. Curious to hear what they're listening to? Check out their song recommendations: Eric: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y5vr_Vhoumc, Chris: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JFS5HCBrSr0, and Cara: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lmc21V-zBq0.
The Sausage of Science is produced by Cara Ocobock and Chris Lynn, with assistance from Junior Service Fellow Caroline Owens for the Public Relations Committee of the Human Biology Association. The song in the soundbed is “Always Lyin’” by the Morning Shakes. Contact the Sausage of Science and Human Biology Association: Facebook: www.facebook.com/groups/humanbiologyassociation Website:humbio.org/, Twitter: @HumBioAssoc
Michaela Howells, Public Relations Committee Chair, Email: howellsm@uncw.edu
Cara Ocobock, Website: https://sites.nd.edu/cara-ocobock/, Email:cocobock@nd.edu, Twitter:@CaraOcobock
Chris Lynn, Website:cdlynn.people.ua.edu/, Email:cdlynn@ua.edu, Twitter:@Chris_Ly
Caroline Owens, Email: cowens8@emory.edu, Twitter: @careowens
This week on the Sausage of Science, Chris and Cara chat with Dr. Kristin Krueger, an Associate Professor of Anthropology at Loyola University of Chicago. Dr. Krueger is a biological anthropologist who specializes in dental anthropology within paleoanthropological and bioarchaeological contexts. Dr. Krueger discusses her interest in understanding behavioral strategies of late members of the genus Homo, her fascination with Neanderthals (a recurring theme as of late), and some of her exciting new projects. To learn more about Dr. Krueger, check out her webpage with Loyola University Chicago, email her atkkrueger4@luc.edu, or find her on twitter @DocKruegerPhD.
The Sausage of Science is produced by Cara Ocobock and Chris Lynn, with assistance from Junior Service Fellow Caroline Owens for the Public Relations Committee of the Human Biology Association. The song in the soundbed is “Always Lyin’” by the Morning Shakes. Contact the Sausage of Science and Human Biology Association: Facebook: www.facebook.com/groups/humanbiologyassociation Website:humbio.org/, Twitter: @HumBioAssoc
Michaela Howells, Public Relations Committee Chair, Email: howellsm@uncw.edu
Cara Ocobock, Website: https://sites.nd.edu/cara-ocobock/, Email:cocobock@nd.edu, Twitter:@CaraOcobock
Chris Lynn, Website:cdlynn.people.ua.edu/, Email:cdlynn@ua.edu, Twitter:@Chris_Ly
Caroline Owens, Email: cowens8@emory.edu, Twitter: @careowens
This week on this Sausage of Science, Chris and Cara chat with Vince Battista, a doctoral candidate at the University of Michigan. Though Vince's primary research interests include adaptation to cold weather and gene-culture coevolution, this interview contains so much more . Vince discusses his path to anthropology, appreciation of the four field approach, sports and anthropology, and the ways that culture is deeply embodied in a core aspect of this show- the sausage, To learn more about Vince, check out his webpage with the University of Michigan at https://lsa.umich.edu/anthro/people/graduate-students/vmbatt.html, send him an email at vmbatt@umich.edu, or find him on twitter @NeandertalGenes.
The Sausage of Science is produced by Cara Ocobock and Chris Lynn, with assistance from Junior Service Fellow Caroline Owens for the Public Relations Committee of the Human Biology Association. The song in the soundbed is “Always Lyin’” by the Morning Shakes. Contact the Sausage of Science and Human Biology Association: Facebook: www.facebook.com/groups/humanbiologyassociation Website:humbio.org/, Twitter: @HumBioAssoc
Michaela Howells, Public Relations Committee Chair, Email: howellsm@uncw.edu
Cara Ocobock, Website: https://sites.nd.edu/cara-ocobock/, Email:cocobock@nd.edu, Twitter:@CaraOcobock
Chris Lynn, Website:cdlynn.people.ua.edu/, Email:cdlynn@ua.edu, Twitter:@Chris_Ly
Caroline Owens, Email: cowens8@emory.edu, Twitter: @careowens
This week on this Sausage of Science, Chris and Cara chat with Dr. David Geary, Curator's Professor of Psychology at the University of Missouri-Columbia. Dr. Geary is a cognitive and developmental evolutionary psychologist with interests in mathematical cognition and learning as well as the biological bases of sex differences. Dr. Geary discusses his path to these research topics, the applications and broader impacts of his research, as well as contention within the field regarding the bases of sex differences. To learn more about Dr. Geary, check out his webpage with the University of Missouri-Columbia at http://web.missouri.edu/~gearyd/ and a video interview on his latest research: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ybbIi3xf5cA.
The Sausage of Science is produced by Cara Ocobock and Chris Lynn, with assistance from Junior Service Fellow Caroline Owens for the Public Relations Committee of the Human Biology Association. The song in the soundbed is “Always Lyin’” by the Morning Shakes. Contact the Sausage of Science and Human Biology Association: Facebook: www.facebook.com/groups/humanbiologyassociation Website:humbio.org/, Twitter: @HumBioAssoc
Michaela Howells, Public Relations Committee Chair, Email: howellsm@uncw.edu
Cara Ocobock, Website: https://sites.nd.edu/cara-ocobock/, Email:cocobock@nd.edu, Twitter:@CaraOcobock
Chris Lynn, Website:cdlynn.people.ua.edu/, Email:cdlynn@ua.edu, Twitter:@Chris_Ly
Caroline Owens, Email: cowens8@emory.edu, Twitter: @careowens
This week on this Sausage of Science, Chris and Cara chat with Katie Lee, a graduate student in anthropology at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Katie shares her current work in Poland investigating how physical activity and estrogen interact to affect bone in healthy adult women. In addition, she talks about her path to anthropology and her various other projects, including sexual harassment and experience in academia. To get in touch with Katie, send her an email at kmlee6@illinois.edu, follow her on twitter @ResourcefulSqrl, or check out her university webpage https://anthro.illinois.edu/directory/profile/kmlee6. The code she wrote for fitbit data can also be found at https://zenodo.org/record/1308115#.XNl-3dNKjBJ.
The Sausage of Science is produced by Cara Ocobock and Chris Lynn, with assistance from Junior Service Fellow Caroline Owens for the Public Relations Committee of the Human Biology Association. The song in the soundbed is “Always Lyin’” by the Morning Shakes. Contact the Sausage of Science and Human Biology Association: Facebook: www.facebook.com/groups/humanbiologyassociation Website:humbio.org/, Twitter: @HumBioAssoc
Michaela Howells, Public Relations Committee Chair, Email: howellsm@uncw.edu
Cara Ocobock, Website: https://sites.nd.edu/cara-ocobock/, Email:cocobock@nd.edu, Twitter:@CaraOcobock
Chris Lynn, Website:cdlynn.people.ua.edu/, Email:cdlynn@ua.edu, Twitter:@Chris_Ly
Caroline Owens, Email: cowens8@emory.edu, Twitter: @careowens
This week on this Sausage of Science, Chris and Cara chat with Drs. Luseadra and McKerracher and Deb Sloboda of McMaster University in Ontario. Drs. McKerracher and Sloboda are a part of the "Mothers2Babies" project based in Hamilton, Ontario. They talk about their experience working to put anthropological knowledge about the developmental origins of health and disease (DoHAD) into public health practice in an area with profound maternal and child health inequities. The Mothers2Babies project is a multi-disciplinary, integrative project that combines expertise from fetal physiology and biology with anthropology and public health. To learn more about the project, check out their website: https://www.m2bstudy.com/ or follow the study on twitter @M2BStudy. You can also follow Dr. Sloboda's lab on twitter: https://twitter.com/sloboda_lab?lang=en or check out their lab website: https://www.slobodalab.com/. Additionally, follow Dr. McKerracher on twitter @luseadra or visit her webpage with McMaster University at https://socialsciences.mcmaster.ca/people/mckerracher-luseadra.
This week on this Sausage of Science, Chris and Cara chat with Dr. Andrew Sorensen, a post-doctoral researcher within the Human Origins and Material Culture Studies groups at the Faculty of Archaeology at Leiden. Dr. Sorensen's work investigates pyrotechnology in the Palaeolithic, with a focus on fire use and fire making by Neandertals. Dr. Sorensen's work has been covered by a number of popular outlets, including The Washington Post. To get in touch with him, follow him on Twitter @Pyropithecus, or see his website with the University of Leiden: https://www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/staffmembers/andrew-sorensen#tab-1. Check out some of Dr. Sorensen's awesome science communication work on Neandertals and fire here: https://natureecoevocommunity.nature.com/users/172684-andrew-sorensen/posts/37290-sparking-controversy-or-putting-out-the-fire As well as his latest article, "Neandertal fire-making technology inferred from microwear analysis", found here: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-018-28342-9
This week on the Sausage of Science, we are thrilled to welcome our first historian onto the show! Dr. Rob Ruck, professor of history at the University of Pittsburgh, chats with Chris and Cara about sports, history, culture, and health, interweaving many of our favorite topics. Dr. Ruck discusses his latest research on football in American Samoa, and the resulting book "Tropic of Football: The Long and Perilous Journey of Samoans to the NFL". Dr. Ruck's other documentaries include The Republic of Baseball: Dominican Giants of the American Game, Raceball: How the Major Leagues Colonized the Black and Latin Game, and Rooney: A Sporting Life, among others. To learn more about Dr. Ruck, check out his personal website: http://robruck.com/, or his University of Pittsburgh website :http://www.history.pitt.edu/people/rob-ruck.
On this episode of SoS, Chris and Cara talk with Dr. Robin Nelson about her research in Jamaica, and theory and practice in a truly biocultural field. Dr. Nelson is currently an associate professor of anthropology at Santa Clara University, where she utilizes evolutionary theory in studies of human sociality and health outcomes, alongside conventional methods from cultural anthropology.To learn more about Dr. Nelson, check out her faculty page at Santa Clara: https://www.scu.edu/cas/anthropology/faculty/robin-nelson/nelson.html, or follow her on twitter @robingnelson.
The Sausage of Science is produced by Cara Ocobock and Chris Lynn, with assistance from Junior Service Fellow Caroline Owens for the Public Relations Committee of the Human Biology Association. The song in the soundbed is “Always Lyin’” by the Morning Shakes. Contact the Sausage of Science and Human Biology Association: Facebook: www.facebook.com/groups/humanbiologyassociation Website:humbio.org/, Twitter: @HumBioAssoc
Michaela Howells, Public Relations Committee Chair, Email: howellsm@uncw.edu
Cara Ocobock, Website: https://sites.nd.edu/cara-ocobock/, Email:cocobock@nd.edu, Twitter:@CaraOcobock
Chris Lynn, Website:cdlynn.people.ua.edu/, Email:cdlynn@ua.edu, Twitter:@Chris_Ly
Caroline Owens, Email: cowens8@emory.edu, Twitter: @careowens
This week on the Sausage of Science, Chris and Cara chat with Dr. Barbara King about her multifaceted research projects covering aspects of belongingness, religion, animal emotion, and human evolution. In addition to her research and multiple book publications, Dr. King has spent years writing for popular audiences on platforms including NPR. Dr. King is Professor Emeritus at William and Mary College, and is the author of numerous books including "Personalities on the Plate: The Lives and Minds of Animals We Eat", "How Animals Grieve", and "Evolving God". To get in touch with Dr. King, check out her twitter @bjkingape, or contact her via email at bjking.wm.edu.
On this week's episode of the Sausage of Science, Chris and Cara chat with Dr. Sera Young about her research on geophagy, water insecurity, and the quirks of cats and tinsel. Dr. Young is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Northwestern University, and author of "Craving Earth: Understanding Pica : the Urge to Eat Clay, Starch, Ice, and Chalk". Dr. Young's current research interests include food insecurity, household-level water insecurity, and Pica Behavior. Dr. Young is also a part of a multi-institutional collaboration to develop an instrument for measuring cross-cultural Household Water Insecurity (HWISE). For more information on Dr. Young, check out her faculty page athttps://www.anthropology.northwestern.edu/people/faculty/sera-young.html, her lab group page at http://serayoung.org/, or follow her on twitter @ProfSeraYoung.
On this week's episode of the Sausage of Science, we chat with Dr. Julie Lesnik about human evolution and edible insects! Dr. Lesnik traces her path through anthropology to entomophagy, and shares her experiences working in the field. Dr. Lesnik is currently an Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Wayne State University, and has recently published a book on her research entitled, "Edible Insects and Human Evolution" available via the University of Florida Press. To learn more about Dr. Lesnik, check out her website with Wayne State University https://clasprofiles.wayne.edu/profile/ba6706, her website on entomophagy anthropology https://www.entomoanthro.org/about-julie.html, or get in touch with her via email- julie.lesnik@wayne.edu or twitter- @JulieLesnik
“The Sausage of Science Podcast with Cara & Chris” From the Public Relations Committee of the Human Biology Association SoS Episode 32- Transgender Experience and Health with Zachary Dubois In episode 32, we chat with Dr. Zachary Dubois, Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of Oregon. Dr. Dubois discusses his most recent research publication, featured in his 2018 HBA talk, "Stigma and diurnal cortisol among transitioning transgender men", as well as his upcoming collaborative research projects. Dr. DuBois joined the Department of Anthropology in the Fall of 2018. As a biocultural anthropologist, his research draws on both qualitative and quantitative methods to ask questions at the intersection of biology and culture. Most broadly, he is interested in social determinants of health and the ways in which our social lives become embodied. Relatedly is an interest in how we adapt and remain resilient in the face of dynamic (environmental and bodily) changes and how these impact health and well-being. For more information on his work, check out his webpage with the University of Oregon at :https://anthropology.uoregon.edu/profile/zdubois/, or get in touch with him through Twitter @Zachsjack or email at: zdubois@uoregon.edu.
The Sausage of Science is produced by Cara Ocobock and Chris Lynn, with assistance from Junior Service Fellow Caroline Owens for the Public Relations Committee of the Human Biology Association. The song in the soundbed is “Always Lyin’” by the Morning Shakes. Contact the Sausage of Science and Human Biology Association: Facebook: www.facebook.com/groups/humanbiologyassociation Website:humbio.org/, Twitter: @HumBioAssoc
Michaela Howells, Public Relations Committee Chair, Email: howellsm@uncw.edu
Cara Ocobock, Website: https://sites.nd.edu/cara-ocobock/, Email:cocobock@nd.edu, Twitter:@CaraOcobock
Chris Lynn, Website:cdlynn.people.ua.edu/, Email:cdlynn@ua.edu, Twitter:@Chris_Ly
Caroline Owens, Email: cowens8@emory.edu, Twitter: @careowens
SoS 31- A Chat with Starfleet's Evolutionary Scientist: Mohamed Noor by Human Biology Association
This bonus track is brought to you from the ALLELE seminar series on evolution at the University of Alabama. Dr. Chakrabarty presents his talk, "Making evolution accessible to everyone"; for more information on his research check out SoS Episode 28 "The Fishy Perspective".
“The Sausage of Science Podcast with Cara & Chris” From the Public Relations Committee of the Human Biology Association SoS Episode 30- Yes, Anthropology is Racist: A Chat with Shay Akil Mclean In episode 30, we chat with Shay-Akil Mclean, a doctoral student in Ecology, Evolution, and Conservation Biology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign . Shay-Akil discusses his experiences navigating many barriers throughout graduate school, as well as his research and future goals. Shay-Akil is completing an interdisciplinary project, examining the impact of inequality on human biology & health at multiple stages: knowledge production (STS, SKATS), collection of biological data, analysis, and interventions. His previous research has examined the relationship between inequality, food insecurity, and dental health in Buffalo, New York, and he is currently working on completing his dissertation project. For more information on his work, check out his webpage with the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign at: http://illinois.academia.edu/ShayAkilMcLean, or get in touch with him through Twitter @hood_biologist.
The Sausage of Science is produced by Cara Ocobock and Chris Lynn, with assistance from Junior Service Fellow Caroline Owens for the Public Relations Committee of the Human Biology Association. The song in the soundbed is “Always Lyin’” by the Morning Shakes. Contact the Sausage of Science and Human Biology Association: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/humanbiologyassociation Website:http://humbio.org/, Twitter: @HumBioAssoc
Michaela Howells, Public Relations Committee Chair, Email: howellsm@uncw.edu
Cara Ocobock, Website: https://sites.nd.edu/cara-ocobock/, Email:cocobock@nd.edu, Twitter:@CaraOcobock
Chris Lynn, Website:http://cdlynn.people.ua.edu/, Email:cdlynn@ua.edu, Twitter:@Chris_Ly
Caroline Owens, Email: cowens8@emory.edu, Twitter: @careowens
This week on the Sausage of Science, we chat with Dr. Stephanie Levy, who will soon be joining the Department of Anthropology at Hunter College. Dr. Levy discusses her ground-breaking work on brown adipose tissue, future research studies, and research among the Yakut in Siberia. Dr. Levy's research investigates adaptation to environmental stressors and the developmental origins of variation in metabolism and cardio-metabolic disease risk. She is currently a Postdoctoral Associate at Yale's Department of Anthropology where she primarily works in the Reproductive Ecology Lab. To get in touch with Dr. Levy, send her an email at:stephanie.levy@yale.edu.
SoS28- The “Fishy” Perspective with Prosanta Chakrabarty In episode 28, we talk with Dr. Prosanta Chakrabarty, Associate Professor in Biological Sciences and Curator of Ichthyology at Louisiana State University. In addition to his position at LSU, Dr. Chakrabarty is a TED Fellow, and experienced public speaker and science communicator. He chats with us about the various modes and opportunities for science communication and outreach, as well as the narratives we use to discuss topics such as evolution. Dr. Chakrabarty has authored two books including A Guide to Academia: Getting into and Surviving Grad School, Postdocs and a Research Job. For more information on Dr. Chakrabarty, check out his webpage and recent publications at https://www.lsu.edu/science/biosci/faculty_and_staff/chakrabarty.php, his TED Fellows page at: https://www.ted.com/speakers/prosanta_chakrabarty, feel free to reach out to him via email at prosanta@lsu.edu, and follow him on Twitter @preaux_fish. Check out his TED Talk, “Four Billion Years of Evolution in Six Minutes” at: https://www.ted.com/talks/prosanta_chakrabarty_four_billion_years_of_evolution_in_six_minutes?language=en.
The Sausage of Science is produced by Cara Ocobock and Chris Lynn, with assistance from Junior Service Fellow Caroline Owens for the Public Relations Committee of the Human Biology Association. The song in the soundbed is “Always Lyin’” by the Morning Shakes. Contact the Sausage of Science and Human Biology Association: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/humanbiologyassociation Website:http://humbio.org/, Twitter: @HumBioAssoc
Michaela Howells, Public Relations Committee Chair, Email: howellsm@uncw.edu
Cara Ocobock, Website: https://sites.nd.edu/cara-ocobock/, Email:cocobock@nd.edu, Twitter:@CaraOcobock
Chris Lynn, Website:http://cdlynn.people.ua.edu/, Email:cdlynn@ua.edu, Twitter:@Chris_Ly
Caroline Owens, Email:cowens8@emory.edu, Twitter: @careowens
“The Sausage of Science Podcast with Cara & Chris” From the Public Relations Committee of the Human Biology Association SoS27- In-Between Spaces with Carolyn Jost Robinson In episode 27, we talk with Dr. Carolyn Jost Robinson, Assistant Professor of Biological Anthropology at the University of North Carolina at Wilmington. Dr. Robinson shares her experience navigating in-between spaces in research, field sites, and a few notable experiences in the field. From establishing field schools to various infections, Dr. Robinson touches on experiential aspects of life as an anthropologist. Refusing to fit inside the lines, Dr. Robinson’s research fuses biological and cultural anthropology, human and wildlife behavioral ecology and adaptation to study human-natural systems. For more information on Dr. Robinson, check out her webpage and recent publications at http://uncw.academia.edu/CarolynJostRobinson, and feel free to reach out to her via email at robinsonc@uncw.edu.
The Sausage of Science is produced by Cara Ocobock and Chris Lynn, with assistance from Junior Service Fellow Caroline Owens for the Public Relations Committee of the Human Biology Association. The song in the soundbed is “Always Lyin’” by the Morning Shakes. Contact the Sausage of Science and Human Biology Association: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/humanbiologyassociation Website:http://humbio.org/, Twitter: @HumBioAssoc
Michaela Howells, Public Relations Committee Chair, Email: howellsm@uncw.edu
Cara Ocobock, Website: https://sites.nd.edu/cara-ocobock/, Email:cocobock@nd.edu, Twitter:@CaraOcobock
Chris Lynn, Website:http://cdlynn.people.ua.edu/, Email:cdlynn@ua.edu, Twitter:@Chris_Ly
Caroline Owens, Email:cowens8@emory.edu, Twitter: @careowens
“The Sausage of Science Podcast with Cara & Chris” From the Public Relations Committee of the Human Biology Association SoS26- “Live" on Lactation with Katie Hinde In episode 26, we go “live” from a talk with Dr. Katie Hinde as part of the ALLELE series at the University of Alabama. Dr. Hinde discusses her path to anthropology and answers student questions on a number of her latest articles. A few selected topics include: non-human primate shock at seeing toes, recent developments in the field, human lactation, and the microbiome. Dr. Hinde is an Associate Professor at Arizona State University in the Center for Evolution and Medicine and School for Human Evolution and Social Change. Her current research investigates how variation in mother’s milk and behavioral care influences infant outcomes from post-natal life and into adulthood, and subsequent generations. For more information on Dr. Hinde’s work, check out her ASU webpage https://isearch.asu.edu/profile/2740008, her blog “Mammals Suck...Milk!” http://mammalssuck.blogspot.com/, or get in touch with her via email at Katie.Hinde@asu.edu, or on twitter @Mammals_Suck. The articles discussed in this week talk can be found at the following links: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4512713/ -Milk bioactives may manipulate microbes to mediate parent–offspring conflict and https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Amanda_Dettmer/publication/299579964_Nonhuman_Primate_Models_of_Mental_Health/links/5706ad1e08aed73c8548a305/Nonhuman-Primate-Models-of-Mental-Health.pdf?origin=publication_detail
The Sausage of Science is produced by Cara Ocobock and Chris Lynn, with assistance from Junior Service Fellow Caroline Owens for the Public Relations Committee of the Human Biology Association. The song in the soundbed is “Always Lyin’” by the Morning Shakes. Contact the Sausage of Science and Human Biology Association: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/humanbiologyassociation Website:http://humbio.org/, Twitter: @HumBioAssoc
Michaela Howells, Public Relations Committee Chair, Email: howellsm@uncw.edu
Cara Ocobock, Website: https://sites.nd.edu/cara-ocobock/, Email:cocobock@nd.edu, Twitter:@CaraOcobock
Chris Lynn, Website:http://cdlynn.people.ua.edu/, Email:cdlynn@ua.edu, Twitter:@Chris_Ly
Caroline Owens, Email: cowens8@emory.edu, Twitter: @careowens
SoS25- Cultural Consonance, Health, and Migration: A Chat with Max Stein In episode 25, we talk with Dr. Max Stein, who successfully defended his dissertation, “Embeddedness, Cultural Consonance, and Health in a Dynamic Migration Network in Northern Peru” at the University of Alabama this semester. In this episode, he discusses his path to anthropology, life and research as a graduate student, navigating the job market, and next steps in the field. For more information on Dr. Stein’s work, check out his webpage: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Max_Stein4, and feel free to get in touch with him, via email at: maxjstein@gmail.com
The Sausage of Science is produced by Cara Ocobock and Chris Lynn, with assistance from Junior Service Fellow Caroline Owens for the Public Relations Committee of the Human Biology Association. The song in the soundbed is “Always Lyin’” by the Morning Shakes. Contact the Sausage of Science and Human Biology Association: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/humanbiologyassociation Website:http://humbio.org/, Twitter: @HumBioAssoc
Michaela Howells, Public Relations Committee Chair, Email: howellsm@uncw.edu
Cara Ocobock, Website: https://sites.nd.edu/cara-ocobock/, Email:cocobock@nd.edu, Twitter:@CaraOcobock
Chris Lynn, Website:http://cdlynn.people.ua.edu/, Email:cdlynn@ua.edu, Twitter:@Chris_Ly
Caroline Owens, Email: cowens8@emory.edu, Twitter: @careowens
“The Sausage of Science Podcast with Cara & Chris” From the Public Relations Committee of the Human Biology Association SoS24- Milk, Microbiomes, and Social Networks: A Chat with Courtney Meehan In episode 24, we talk with Dr.Courtney Meehan, Associate Professor of Evolutionary and Cultural Anthropology at Washington State University. Dr. Meehan’s research interests include infant and child physical, social, and emotional development, parental and alloparental reproductive and investment strategies, and breastfeeding, lactation, and human milk composition. In this episode, she discusses her path to anthropology, as well as her ongoing cross-cultural research that integrates human milk composition, infant microbiomes, and social networks. For more information on Dr. Meehan’s work, check out her website with the Department of Anthropology at WSU: https://anthro.wsu.edu/faculty-and-staff/courtney-meehan/ or her Biocultural Anthropology Lab website: https://labs.wsu.edu/meehan/ . Dr. Meehan also several opportunities for graduate students and research assistants, and is happy to chat with any interested candidates! To get in touch with her, simply send her an email at: cmeehan@wsu.edu.
For additional research on human milk composition, see: Mcguire, M. K., Meehan, C. L., et al. (2017). What’s normal? Oligosaccharide concentrations and profiles in milk produced by healthy women vary geographically. The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition,105(5) Ruiz, L., Espinosa-Martos, I., Meehan, C. L., et al. (2017). What’s Normal? Immune Profiling of Human Milk from Healthy Women Living in Different Geographical and Socioeconomic Settings. Frontiers in Immunology,
The Sausage of Science is produced by Cara Ocobock and Chris Lynn, with assistance from Junior Service Fellow Caroline Owens for the Public Relations Committee of the Human Biology Association. The song in the soundbed is “Always Lyin’” by the Morning Shakes. Contact the Sausage of Science and Human Biology Association: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/humanbiologyassociation Website:http://humbio.org/, Twitter: @HumBioAssoc
Michaela Howells, Public Relations Committee Chair, Email: howellsm@uncw.edu
Cara Ocobock, Website: https://sites.nd.edu/cara-ocobock/, Email:cocobock@nd.edu, Twitter:@CaraOcobock
Chris Lynn, Website:http://cdlynn.people.ua.edu/, Email:cdlynn@ua.edu, Twitter:@Chris_Ly
Caroline Owens, Email: cowens8@emory.edu, Twitter: @careowens
“The Sausage of Science Podcast with Cara & Chris” From the Public Relations Committee of the Human Biology Association SoS23- When it Rains, It Floods: A Chat with Asher Rosinger In episode 23, we talk with Dr. Asher Rosinger, a member of the Human Biology Association and Assistant Professor of Biobehavioral Health and Anthropology at Penn State. At Penn State, Rosinger examines human response to changing nutritional and economic environments through water and dietary intake and the significance of mismatches in these relationships for short/long-term health, nutrition, and disease. In this episode, he discusses his path to anthropology, as well as stories from his dissertation work with the Tsimane, work at the CDC, and life as a new parent (including a few well-deserved “Dad Jokes”). With several publications presently in the works, Rosinger takes some time to shares his tips for collaborative work, big data analysis, and publication success. Opportunities for secondary data analysis grant funding through the NIH are detailed on the NIH website: https://grants.nih.gov/grants/funding/r03.htm. He is also seeking a graduate student in the Department of Biobehavioral Health, and is happy to chat with any interested candidates! More information about his research can be found at his faculty page: http://anth.la.psu.edu/people/axr579, and can be reached via email at axr579@psu.edu or on twitter @asher_rosinger.
The Sausage of Science is produced by Cara Ocobock and Chris Lynn, with assistance from Junior Service Fellow Caroline Owens for the Public Relations Committee of the Human Biology Association. The song in the soundbed is “Always Lyin’” by the Morning Shakes. Contact the Sausage of Science and Human Biology Association: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/humanbiologyassociation Website:http://humbio.org/, Twitter: @HumBioAssoc
Michaela Howells, Public Relations Committee Chair, Email: howellsm@uncw.edu
Cara Ocobock, Website: https://sites.nd.edu/cara-ocobock/, Email:cocobock@nd.edu, Twitter:@CaraOcobock
Chris Lynn, Website:http://cdlynn.people.ua.edu/, Email:cdlynn@ua.edu, Twitter:@Chris_Ly
Caroline Owens, Email: cowens8@emory.edu, Twitter: @careowens
“The Sausage of Science Podcast with Cara & Chris” From the Public Relations Committee of the Human Biology Association
In episode 22, we talk with Notre Dame graduate student Mallika Sarma. Mallika discusses many aspects of graduate life, including olympic lifting, her reserach on environmental extremes and energetics, and her most recent book and movie recommendations. Mallika has been involved in a number of research projects, and is currently completing her dissertation research in Wyoming which will compare adaptations among populations who have lived in high- or low-altitude environments for generations with those who move to a high-altitude environment for a few months. Mallika also discusses her ideal research project: working with NASA and taking the field of anthropology to all new heights.For more information on Mallika, check out her graduate student page with Notre Dame or a recent article highlighting her ongoing research. Mallika is also happy to connect via twitter @skyy_mal or over email at msarma@nd.edu. Also check out this feature on the HULK, a machine that allows astronauts to lift in space: https://flightopportunities.nasa.gov/technologies/57/
The Sausage of Science is produced by Cara Ocobock and Chris Lynn, with assistance from Junior Service Fellow Caroline Owens for the Public Relations Committee of the Human Biology Association. The song in the soundbed is “Always Lyin’” by the Morning Shakes.
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Cara Ocobock, Website: https://sites.nd.edu/cara-ocobock/, Email:cocobock@nd.edu, Twitter:@CaraOcobock
Chris Lynn, Website:http://cdlynn.people.ua.edu/, Email:cdlynn@ua.edu, Twitter:@Chris_Ly
Caroline Owens, Email:cowens8@emory.edu, Twitter: @careowens
“The Sausage of Science Podcast with Cara & Chris” From the Public Relations Committee of the Human Biology Association SoS21- Stigma Shapes Us: A Chat with Alex Brewis Slade In episode 21, we talk with Dr. Alex Brewis (Slade) about her new position as President of the Human Biology Association, her personal development as a researcher, and recent research on weight stigma. Brewis shares stories of her past and her diverse background within the field of anthropology, the importance of studying stigma as an anthropologist, and her hopes for the future of the Human Biology Association. Brewis is a President’s Professor at Arizona State University and former director of ASU’s School of Evolution and Social Change. For more information about Brewis check out her Arizona State University webpage https://isearch.asu.edu/profile/855688 her blog, “Lazy, Crazy, Disgusting”, which she co-authors with colleague Amber Wutitch, or her twitter @brewis_alex. Slade can also be reached via email at Alex.Brewis@asu.edu.
The Sausage of Science is produced by Cara Ocobock and Chris Lynn, with assistance from Junior Service Fellow Caroline Owens for the Public Relations Committee of the Human Biology Association. The song in the soundbed is “Always Lyin’” by the Morning Shakes. Contact the Sausage of Science and Human Biology Association: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/humanbiologyassociation Website: http://humbio.org Twitter: @HumBioAssoc
Michaela Howells, Public Relations Committee Chair, Email: howellsm@uncw.edu
Cara Ocobock, Website: https://sites.nd.edu/cara-ocobock/, Email:cocobock@nd.edu, Twitter:@CaraOcobock
Chris Lynn, Website:http://cdlynn.people.ua.edu/, Email:cdlynn@ua.edu, Twitter:@Chris_Ly
Caroline Owens, Email:cowens8@emory.edu, Twitter: @careowens
In episode 20, we talk with Dr. Lesley Jo Weaver about her new position as Assistant Professor of International Studies at the University of Oregon, her new book “Sugar and Tension”, fieldwork, and her podcast “Speaking of Race”, which she co-hosts along with Jim Bindon and Erik Peterson. Weaver shares stories of wire cutting and wisdom that range from the process of moving cross-country to identifying and working with sustainably developed NGOs. Her latest research project in India will be focusing on social stratification, mental health, and stigma. More information about her research can be found at her previous faculty page: http://ljweaver.people.ua.edu/, and she can also be reached via email at: ljweaver@ua.edu. Her new faculty information can soon be found on the Department of International Studies at the University of Oregon website: https://intldept.uoregon.edu/. To get in touch with the “Speaking of Race” podcast, check out their website: http://speakingofrace.ua.edu/podcast.
The Sausage of Science is produced by Cara Ocobock and Chris Lynn, with assistance from Junior Service Fellow Caroline Owens for the Public Relations Committee of the Human Biology Association. The song in the soundbed is “Always Lyin’” by the Morning Shakes. Contact the Sausage of Science and Human Biology Association: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/humanbiologyassociation Website:http://humbio.org/, Twitter: @HumBioAssoc
Michaela Howells, Public Relations Committee Chair, Email: howellsm@uncw.edu
Cara Ocobock, Website: https://sites.nd.edu/cara-ocobock/, Email:cocobock@nd.edu, Twitter:@CaraOcobock
Chris Lynn, Website:http://cdlynn.people.ua.edu/, Email:cdlynn@ua.edu, Twitter:@Chris_Ly
Caroline Owens, Email:cowens8@emory.edu, Twitter: @careowens
In episode 19, we air a podcast episode originally produced by Science for the People, in which Lynette Sievert discusses the evolution and variation of menopause as a human trait. Sievert is an editor of AJHB and professor of anthropology at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Her research on age at menopause and associated symptom experience has taken place in a variety of contexts, from western Massachusetts to Mexico, Slovenia, Paraguay, Hawaii, Bangladesh, and the UK. To listen to the full episode of Science for the People Episode #460 Brake for Menopause, featuring cognitive neuroscientist Lauren Drogos, follow this link: http://www.scienceforthepeople.ca/episodes/brake-for-menopause. More information about Sievert’s research can be found at her faculty page: https://www.umass.edu/anthro/people/lynnette-leidy-sievert, and she can also be reached via email at: leidy@anthro.umass.edu
The Sausage of Science is produced by Cara Ocobock and Chris Lynn, with assistance from Junior Service Fellow Caroline Owens for the Public Relations Committee of the Human Biology Association.
The song in the soundbed is “Always Lyin’” by the Morning Shakes. Contact the Sausage of Science and Human Biology Association: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/humanbiologyassociation, Website: http://humbio.org/, Twitter: @HumBioAssoc Michaela Howells, Public Relations Committee Chair, Email: howellsm@uncw.edu
Cara Ocobock, Website: https://sites.nd.edu/cara-ocobock/, Email:cocobock@nd.edu, Twitter:@CaraOcobock
Chris Lynn, Website:http://cdlynn.people.ua.edu/, Email:cdlynn@ua.edu, Twitter:@Chris_Ly
Caroline Owens,Email:cowens8@emory.edu, Twitter: @careowens
In episode 18, we interview Isa Godinez, this year’s recipient of the HBA Edward E. Hunt, Jr. Award for Outstanding Graduate Presentation or Poster for her poster entitled Cardiometabolic health among Purepecha in North Carolina. Godinez is a graduate student at UNC Chapel Hill working with Dr. Amanda Thompson, and recently completed a successful doctoral defense on her research with the Purepecha population. In this interview, we talk to Godinez about field work, migration, cardiometabolic health, and reevaluating the common acculturation narrative among the Purepecha in North Carolina.
More information about Godinez’s research can be found at UNCs Human Biology laboratory page: http://humanbiologylab.web.unc.edu/people/, and she can also be reached via email at isaurag@live.unc.edu
The Sausage of Science is produced by Cara Ocobock and Chris Lynn, with assistance from Junior Service Fellow Caroline Owens for the Public Relations Committee of the Human Biology Association. The song in the soundbed is “Always Lyin’” by the Morning Shakes.
Contact the Sausage of Science and Human Biology Association: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/humanbiologyassociation, Website: http://humbio.org/, Twitter: @HumBioAssoc
Michaela Howells, Public Relations Committee Chair, Email: howellsm@uncw.edu
Cara Ocobock, Website: https://sites.nd.edu/cara-ocobock/, Email:cocobock@nd.edu, Twitter:@CaraOcobock
Chris Lynn, Website: http://cdlynn.people.ua.edu/, Email: cdlynn@ua.edu, Twitter: @Chris_Ly
Caroline Owens, Email: cowens8@emory.edu, Twitter: @careowens
In episode 17, we interview Kathy Oths and Hannah Smith from the University of Alabama about their recent AJHB article “A decade of rapid change: Biocultural influences on child growth in highland Peru” (Vol. 30, Issue 2, https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/ajhb.23072). Oths is Professor of Anthropology, and Smith is a Master’s student in the program working with Dr. Oths. In this interview, we talk to Oths and Smith about Oths’ long-term work on traditional healers and the impact of travel on birth size, growth, and health in highland Peru, including her perilous flight from the Shining Path at the end of her dissertation work in the 1980s. Smith has been data analyst and accompanied Oths in recent fieldwork in Peru.
For more about Oths, go to her website: http://koths.people.ua.edu/. Check out Smith on her Research Gate page: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Hannah_Smith106
Photo of Oths and Smith conducting fieldwork in Peru courtesy Kathy Oths.
The Sausage of Science is produced by Cara Ocobock and Chris Lynn for the Public Relations Committee of the Human Biology Association. The song in the soundbed is “Always Lyin’” by the Morning Shakes.
Contact the Sausage of Science and Human Biology Association: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/humanbiologyassociation, Website: http://humbio.org/, Twitter: @HumBioAssoc
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Cara Ocobock, Website: https://sites.nd.edu/cara-ocobock/, Email:cocobock@nd.edu, Twitter:@CaraOcobock
Chris Lynn, Website: http://cdlynn.people.ua.edu/, Email: cdlynn@ua.edu, Twitter: @Chris_Ly
In episode 16, we share an edited version of Bill Leonard's April 24, 2018 James R. Bindon Biocultural Anthropology and Health Series lecture at the University of Alabama entitled "Integrating Evolutionary and Biological Approaches to the Study of Human Diversity and Health." Leonard is the Abraham Harris Professor and Chair of the Department of Anthropology and the Director of the Global Health Studies Program at Northwestern. He is a past president of the Human Biology Association.
In this talk, he provides an overview of human adaptability studies with particular focus on how adaptation to modernization varies among the sites he has worked in Siberia, Peru, and Bolivia. This full lecture can be found online at https://vimeo.com/271324498.
For more about Leonard, go to his website: https://www.northwestern.edu/globalhealthstudies/People/faculty/core-faculty/william-leonard.html .
The Sausage of Science is produced by Cara Ocobock and Chris Lynn for the Publicity Committee of the Human Biology Association. The song in the soundbed is “Always Lyin’” by the Morning Shakes.
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Cara Ocobock, Website: https://sites.nd.edu/cara-ocobock/, Email:cocobock@nd.edu, Twitter:@CaraOcobock
Chris Lynn, Website: http://cdlynn.people.ua.edu/, Email: cdlynn@ua.edu, Twitter: @Chris_Ly
In episode 15, we interview Bill Leonard from Northwestern University. Leonard is the Abraham Harris Professor and Chair of the Department of Anthropology and the Director of the Global Health Studies Program at Northwestern. He is a past president of the Human Biology Association. In this interview, he talks about his heritage from the Paul Baker lineage and the legacy of human biologists he has trained, as well as some of his experiences and findings in Peru, Bolivia, and Siberia.
For more about Leonard, go to his website: https://www.northwestern.edu/globalhealthstudies/People/faculty/core-faculty/william-leonard.html .
The Sausage of Science is produced by Cara Ocobock and Chris Lynn for the Publicity Committee of the Human Biology Association. The song in the soundbed is “Always Lyin’” by the Morning Shakes.
Contact the Sausage of Science and Human Biology Association: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/humanbiologyassociation, Website: http://humbio.org/, Twitter: @HumBioAssoc
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Cara Ocobock, Website: https://sites.nd.edu/cara-ocobock/, Email:cocobock@nd.edu, Twitter:@CaraOcobock
Chris Lynn, Website: http://cdlynn.people.ua.edu/, Email: cdlynn@ua.edu, Twitter: @Chris_Ly
In episode 14, we interview Rieti Gengo, a doctoral candidate in biocultural anthropology at Notre Dame. Besides fingernail clippings, we talk to Rieti about his recent publication "Positive effects of refugee presence on host community nutritional status in Turkana County, Kenya" in American Journal of Human Biology (https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/ajhb.23060).
For more info about Rieti, check out his Notre Dame profile: https://kroc.nd.edu/ph-d/ph-d-students/rieti-gengo/
The Sausage of Science is produced by Cara Ocobock and Chris Lynn for the Publicity Committee of the Human Biology Association. The song in the soundbed is “Always Lyin’” by the Morning Shakes.
Contact the Sausage of Science and Human Biology Association: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/humanbiologyassociation, Website: http://humbio.org/, Twitter: @HumBioAssoc
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Cara Ocobock, Website: https://sites.nd.edu/cara-ocobock/, Email:cocobock@nd.edu, Twitter:@CaraOcobock
Chris Lynn, Website: http://cdlynn.people.ua.edu/, Email: cdlynn@ua.edu, Twitter: @Chris_Ly
In episodes 12 and 13, we interview Andrea Wiley from Indiana University and share an edit of her October 13, 2016 James R. Bindon Biocultural Anthropology and Health Series lecture at the University of Alabama entitled “Biocultural Perspectives and Biological ‘Normalcy’: The example of human consumption of cow’s milk.” Wiley is Professor of Anthropology and Director of Human Biology at Indiana University. She is the author of Re-imaging Milk (2011) and Cultures of Milk: The Biology and Culture of Dairy Consumption in India and the United States (2014). Wiley is also past president and secretary-treasurer of the Human Biology Association.
For more about Wiley, go to her website: http://www.indiana.edu/~anthro/people/faculty/wileya.shtml.
Photo of Andrea with Jim Bindon at her 2016 James R. Bindon Biocultural Anthropology & Health lecture.
The Sausage of Science is produced by Cara Ocobock and Chris Lynn for the Publicity Committee of the Human Biology Association. The song in the soundbed is “Always Lyin’” by the Morning Shakes.
Contact the Sausage of Science and Human Biology Association: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/humanbiologyassociation, Website: http://humbio.org/, Twitter: @HumBioAssoc
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Cara Ocobock, Website: https://sites.nd.edu/cara-ocobock/, Email:cocobock@nd.edu, Twitter:@CaraOcobock
Chris Lynn, Website: http://cdlynn.people.ua.edu/, Email: cdlynn@ua.edu, Twitter: @Chris_Ly
In episodes 12 and 13, we interview Andrea Wiley from Indiana University and share an edit of her October 13, 2016 James R. Bindon Biocultural Anthropology and Health Series lecture at the University of Alabama entitled “Biocultural Perspectives and Biological ‘Normalcy’: The example of human consumption of cow’s milk.” Wiley is Professor of Anthropology and Director of Human Biology at Indiana University. She is the author of Re-imaging Milk (2011) and Cultures of Milk: The Biology and Culture of Dairy Consumption in India and the United States (2014). Wiley is also past president and secretary-treasurer of the Human Biology Association.
For more about Wiley, go to her website: http://www.indiana.edu/~anthro/people/faculty/wileya.shtml.
Photo is version of one taken from her lecture that gave us all a giggle.
The Sausage of Science is produced by Cara Ocobock and Chris Lynn for the Publicity Committee of the Human Biology Association. The song in the soundbed is “Always Lyin’” by the Morning Shakes.
Contact the Sausage of Science and Human Biology Association: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/humanbiologyassociation, Website: http://humbio.org/, Twitter: @HumBioAssoc
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Cara Ocobock, Website: https://sites.nd.edu/cara-ocobock/, Email:cocobock@nd.edu, Twitter:@CaraOcobock
Chris Lynn, Website: http://cdlynn.people.ua.edu/, Email: cdlynn@ua.edu, Twitter: @Chris_Ly
In this episode, we share an edited version of the Joseph Graves ALLELE lecture from November 9, 2016 at the University of Alabama. Graves is an evolutionary biologist and author of “The Emperor’s New Clothes: Biological Theories of Race at the Millennium” and “The Race Myth: Why We Pretend Race Exists in America.”
For more about Graves, go to his website: http://jsnn.ncat.uncg.edu/faculty/joseph-l-graves-jr-ph-d/.
For the full lecture of this talk, go to: https://vimeo.com/192789082
Photo of Chris with Joe at the University of Alabama ALLELE lecture, 2016.
The Sausage of Science is produced by Cara Ocobock and Chris Lynn for the Publicity Committee of the Human Biology Association. The song in the soundbed is “Always Lyin’” by the Morning Shakes.
Contact the Sausage of Science and Human Biology Association: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/humanbiologyassociation, Website: http://humbio.org/, Twitter: @HumBioAssoc
Michaela Howells, Publicity Committee Chair, Email: howellsm@uncw.edu
Cara Ocobock, Website: https://sites.nd.edu/cara-ocobock/, Email:cocobock@nd.edu, Twitter:@CaraOcobock
Chris Lynn, Website: http://cdlynn.people.ua.edu/, Email: cdlynn@ua.edu, Twitter: @Chris_Ly
In this episode, we talk about the recent Human Biology Association meeting and share of our favorite episodes of the “Speaking of Race” podcast. “Speaking of Race” is a project by HBA member Jim Bindon, along with historian Erik Peterson and cultural anthropologist Jo Weaver. In this episode from Black History month, they interview molecular biologist Malcolm Byrnes about the legacy of E.E. Just and evolutionary biologist Joseph Graves and his own experiences as an African-American scientist.
Photos is of Joe Graves visiting Jo Weaver's UA course on race, with Jim Bindon (who designed the course) joining them.
For more “Speaking of Race” episodes: http://speakingofrace.ua.edu/podcast.
The Sausage of Science is produced by Cara Ocobock and Chris Lynn for the Publicity Committee of the Human Biology Association. The song in the soundbed is “Always Lyin’” by the Morning Shakes.
Contact the Sausage of Science and Human Biology Association: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/humanbiologyassociation, Website: http://humbio.org/, Twitter: @HumBioAssoc
Michaela Howells, Publicity Committee Chair, Email: howellsm@uncw.edu
Cara Ocobock, Website: https://sites.nd.edu/cara-ocobock/, Email:cocobock@nd.edu, Twitter:@CaraOcobock
Chris Lynn, Website: http://cdlynn.people.ua.edu/, Email: cdlynn@ua.edu, Twitter: @Chris_Ly
In our 9th episode we talk with Drs. Mary Shenk and Siobhán Mattison about the evolution of persistent institutional inequality. Dr. Shenk is an associate professor of anthropology at Penn State University and Dr. Mattison is an assistant professor of anthropology at the University of New Mexico.
The paper we discussed is “The Evolution of Inequality” published by Evolutionary Anthropology in 2016.
https://faculty.washington.edu/easmith/Mattison,Smith,Shenk&Cochrane2016-EvAnth.pdf
You can contact Dr. Shenk via email: mks74@psu.edu You can contact Dr. Mattison via email: smattison@unm.edu & twitter: @siobhanmattison
Evolutionary Anthropology on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/evanthsociety/
The song in the soundbed is “Always Lyin’” by the Morning Shakes.
Contact Us: https://www.facebook.com/groups/humanbiologyassociation http://humbio.org/ https://twitter.com/HumBioAssoc
Michaela Howells is Chair of the Publicity Committee, howellsm@uncw.edu
Cara & Chris are committee members and produce this show:
Cara Ocobock http://www.albany.edu/anthro/72074.php cocobock@albany.edu https://twitter.com/CaraOcobock
Chris Lynn http://cdlynn.people.ua.edu/ cdlynn@ua.edu https://twitter.com/Chris_Ly
In this episode, we talk to Dr. Morgan Hoke, a biocultural anthropologist and Assistant Professor in Anthropology and the Population Studies Center at UPenn. We talk about her work on infant growth and maternal health at the long-term human biology field site in Nuñoa, Peru relative to her article “Economic activity and patterns of infant growth in a high altitude district of Peru” in the November/December 2017 issues of AJHB and about her January 2018 Sapiens piece on baby fat and brains.
For more information about Morgan Hoke’s work, check out her webpages: Academia.edu: https://upenn.academia.edu/MorganHoke Anthropology: https://www.sas.upenn.edu/anthropology/people/morgan-hoke Population Studies Center: https://www.pop.upenn.edu/bio/morgan-hoke.
The Sausage of Science is produced by Cara Ocobock and Chris Lynn for the Publicity Committee of the Human Biology Association. The song in the soundbed is “Always Lyin’” by the Morning Shakes.
Contact the Sausage of Science and Human Biology Association: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/humanbiologyassociation, Website: http://humbio.org/, Twitter: @HumBioAssoc
Michaela Howells, Publicity Committee Chair, Email: howellsm@uncw.edu
Cara Ocobock, Website: http://www.albany.edu/anthro/72074.php, Email: cocobock@albany.edu, Twitter: @CaraOcobock
Chris Lynn, Website: http://cdlynn.people.ua.edu/, Email: cdlynn@ua.edu, Twitter: @Chris_Ly
This episode is the third of our show format interviews of people with recent publications in the American Journal of Human Biology, the official journal of the Human Biology Association. It is in a way the special connections episode where we interview University at Albany PhD candidate, Elizabeth Holdsworth, and her advisor, Dr. Larry Schell. Liz and Larry are both office neighbors to Cara at UAlbany, and “back in the day” Larry was Chris’ PhD advisor. We are discussing their recent publication, “Maternal-Infant interaction as an influence on infant adiposity” in the September/October 2017 issue (Volume 29, Issue 5).
Contact Us: https://www.facebook.com/groups/humanbiologyassociation http://humbio.org/ https://twitter.com/HumBioAssoc
Michaela Howells is Chair of the Publicity Committee, howellsm@uncw.edu
Cara & Chris are committee members and produce this show:
Cara Ocobock http://www.albany.edu/anthro/72074.php cocobock@albany.edu https://twitter.com/CaraOcobock Chris Lynn http://cdlynn.people.ua.edu/ cdlynn@ua.edu https://twitter.com/Chris_Ly
Interview engineered, edited, & mixed by Chris & Cara.
The song in the soundbed is “Always Lyin’” by the Morning Shakes.
In this episode, we talk to Dr. Sharon DeWitte, a bioarchaeologist and Associate Professor at the University of South Carolina. We talk about health improvements after Black Death in London, feminist bioarchaeology, and secular trends in age a menarche in mortuary remains.
She has a new article in early view in AJHB called “Stress, sex, and plague: Patterns of developmental stress and survival in pre- and post-Black Death London” (early view 26 Oct 2017).
For more information about Sharon DeWitte’s work, check out her webpage at https://sharondewitte.wordpress.com/ or email her at dewittes@mailbox.sc.edu.
Contact the Sausage of Science and Human Biology Association: https://www.facebook.com/groups/humanbiologyassociation http://humbio.org/ https://twitter.com/HumBioAssoc
Michaela Howells is Chair of the HBA Publicity Committee, howellsm@uncw.edu Cara & Chris are committee members and produce this show: Cara Ocobock http://www.albany.edu/anthro/72074.php cocobock@albany.edu https://twitter.com/CaraOcobock Chris Lynn http://cdlynn.people.ua.edu/ cdlynn@ua.edu https://twitter.com/Chris_Ly
Interview engineered, edited, & mixed by Chris. The song in the soundbed is “Always Lyin’” by the Morning Shakes.
This episode is the premier of our short format interviews of people with recent publications in the American Journal of Human Biology, the official journal of the Human Biology Association.
Dr. Cara Ocobock is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University at Albany (SUNY) and co-host of this show. Chris suggested this idea to Cara, who liked it, so we turned on the recorder and did an impromptu interview on the spot. Cara’s piece that we discuss is “Body fat attenuates muscle mass catabolism among physically active humans in temperate and cold high altitude environments” in the September/October 2017 issue (Volume 29, Issue 5).
Contact Us: https://www.facebook.com/groups/humanbiologyassociation http://humbio.org/ https://twitter.com/HumBioAssoc
Michaela Howells is Chair of the Publicity Committee, howellsm@uncw.edu
Cara & Chris are committee members and produce this show:
Cara Ocobock http://www.albany.edu/anthro/72074.php cocobock@albany.edu https://twitter.com/CaraOcobock
Chris Lynn http://cdlynn.people.ua.edu/ cdlynn@ua.edu https://twitter.com/Chris_Ly
Interview engineered, edited, & mixed by Chris.
The song in the soundbed is “Always Lyin’” by the Morning Shakes.
Dr. Nina Jablonski is Evan Pugh Professor of Anthropology at Penn State University. She is a primatologist and paleoanthropologist but has also become among the foremost experts in the world on the biology and evolution of human skin pigmentation. She is author of Living Color: The Biological and Social Meaning of Skin Color (2012) and Skin: A Natural History (2006).
Dr. Jablonski was interviewed by Chris, along with Jo Weaver and Erik Peterson, while in Tuscaloosa, AL to give a lecture for the ALLELE speaker series. The interview was recorded by Jim Bindon. Jo, Erik, and Jim produce the Speaking of Race podcast, and we shared portions of the interview.
Learn more about Dr. Jablonski’s research and teaching at her department webpage: anth.la.psu.edu/people/ngj2. Contact Nina Jablonski: Ngj2@psu.edu. Get info about the Finding Your Roots program she develops and runs with Henry Louis Gates www.findingyourroots.la.psu.edu/ Tmw119@psu.edu
Find more information about the UA ALLELE series: evolution.ua.edu/. Nina Jablonski’s full lecture with video will be posted on the ALLELE Vimeo site: vimeo.com/channels/allele/videos
Contact Us: www.facebook.com/groups/humanbiologyassociation humbio.org/ twitter.com/HumBioAssoc
Michaela Howells is Chair of the Publicity Committee, howellsm@uncw.edu. Cara & Chris are committee members and produce this show:
Cara Ocobock www.albany.edu/anthro/72074.php cocobock@albany.edu twitter.com/CaraOcobock
Chris Lynn cdlynn.people.ua.edu/ cdlynn@ua.edu twitter.com/Chris_Ly
Interview engineered by Jim Bindon. Lecture recorded by UA’s eTech. Mixing and editing by Chris. Music by the Morning Shakes.
“Sausage of Science” logo by Lux Lynn (LuxL1312@gmail.com).
Dr. Sean Rafferty is an archaeologist at the University at Albany. His office is right next door to Cara’s. He was one of Chris’ professors in grad school. Sean’s focus has moved from strictly cognitive and Northeastern U.S. archaeology to the philosophy of skepticism. While Chris fondly remembers Sean as skeptical by nature, he has delved deeper into the discipline, theory, and literature of skepticism and teaches several courses and sections on it to UAlbany students.
Cara hosts Science on Tap lectures at a local pub in Albany, and Sean gave a lecture for her on skepticism. Episode 2 is the audio of that lecture. We interviewed Sean as a way to set up the episode, and we all have so many words, we decided to split it into two parts.
Learn more about Sean’s research and teaching at his department webpage: http://www.albany.edu/anthro/rafferty.php
Sean got into skepticism by listening to podcasts (fancy that!), so we asked him what some of his favorite podcasts are and promised to provide links to them here:
● Skeptics Guide to the Universe - http://www.theskepticsguide.org/
● Center for Scientific Inquiry - http://www.pointofinquiry.org/
● Skepticality - https://www.skepticality.com/
● Skeptic Magazine - http://www.skeptic.com/podcasts/
● Monster Talk - http://monstertalk.skeptic.com/
● Skeptoid - https://skeptoid.com/
● Society for Science Based Medicine - http://sfsbm.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=163&Itemid=786
● Sisyphus Speaks - http://sfsbm.org/sysiphusspeaks.com/
● Penn Jillette - http://pennsundayschool.com/
● The Cracked - http://www.cracked.com/podcast/
● Buzzfeed - https://www.buzzfeed.com/podcasts
Classroom Materials Calling Bullshit Syllabus: http://callingbullshit.org/
Recommended Books: The Demon Haunted World - Carl Sagan You are not so smart - David McRaney Nonsense on Stilts - Massimo Piglucci The Believing Brain - Michael Shermer Abominable Science - Donald Prothero Reality Check: How Science Deniers Threaten our Future - Donald Prothero
Contact Sean Rafferty: srafferty@albany.edu Journal of Northeast Anthropology http://www.albany.edu/northeast_anthropology/, neanthro@albany.edu
Contact Us: https://www.facebook.com/groups/humanbiologyassociation http://humbio.org/ https://twitter.com/HumBioAssoc
Cara Ocobock http://www.albany.edu/anthro/72074.php cocobock@albany.edu https://twitter.com/CaraOcobock Chris Lynn http://cdlynn.people.ua.edu/ cdlynn@ua.edu https://twitter.com/Chris_Ly
The song in the soundbed is “Broke 4U Baby” by the Morning Shakes, Chris’ band from the 1990s.
Dr. Sean Rafferty is an archaeologist at the University at Albany. His office is right next door to Cara’s. He was one of Chris’ professors in grad school. Sean’s focus has moved from strictly cognitive and Northeastern U.S. archaeology to the philosophy of skepticism. While Chris fondly remembers Sean as skeptical by nature, he has delved deeper into the discipline, theory, and literature of skepticism and teaches several courses and sections on it to UAlbany students.
Cara hosts Science on Tap lectures at a local pub in Albany, and Sean gave a lecture for her on skepticism. Episode 2 is the audio of that lecture. We interviewed Sean as a way to set up the episode, and we all have so many words, we decided to split it into two parts.
Learn more about Sean’s research and teaching at his department webpage: http://www.albany.edu/anthro/rafferty.php
Sean got into skepticism by listening to podcasts (fancy that!), so we asked him what some of his favorite podcasts are and promised to provide links to them here:
● Skeptics Guide to the Universe - http://www.theskepticsguide.org/
● Center for Scientific Inquiry - http://www.pointofinquiry.org/
● Skepticality - https://www.skepticality.com/
● Skeptic Magazine - http://www.skeptic.com/podcasts/
● Monster Talk - http://monstertalk.skeptic.com/
● Skeptoid - https://skeptoid.com/
● Society for Science Based Medicine - http://sfsbm.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=163&Itemid=786
● Sisyphus Speaks - http://sfsbm.org/sysiphusspeaks.com/
● Penn Jillette - http://pennsundayschool.com/
● The Cracked - http://www.cracked.com/podcast/
● Buzzfeed - https://www.buzzfeed.com/podcasts
Classroom Materials Calling Bullshit Syllabus: http://callingbullshit.org/
Recommended Books: The Demon Haunted World - Carl Sagan You are not so smart - David McRaney Nonsense on Stilts - Massimo Piglucci The Believing Brain - Michael Shermer Abominable Science - Donald Prothero Reality Check: How Science Deniers Threaten our Future - Donald Prothero
Contact Sean Rafferty: srafferty@albany.edu Journal of Northeast Anthropology http://www.albany.edu/northeast_anthropology/, neanthro@albany.edu
Contact Us: https://www.facebook.com/groups/humanbiologyassociation http://humbio.org/ https://twitter.com/HumBioAssoc
Cara Ocobock http://www.albany.edu/anthro/72074.php cocobock@albany.edu https://twitter.com/CaraOcobock Chris Lynn http://cdlynn.people.ua.edu/ cdlynn@ua.edu https://twitter.com/Chris_Ly
The song in the soundbed is “Broke 4U Baby” by the Morning Shakes, Chris’ band from the 1990s.
Dr. Nina Jablonski is Evan Pugh Professor of Anthropology at Penn State University. She is a primatologist and paleoanthropologist but has also become among the foremost experts in the world on the biology and evolution of human skin pigmentation. She is author of Living Color: The Biological and Social Meaning of Skin Color (2012) and Skin: A Natural History (2006).
Dr. Jablonski was interviewed by Chris, along with Jo Weaver and Erik Peterson, while in Tuscaloosa, AL to give a lecture for the ALLELE speaker series. The interview was recorded by Jim Bindon. Jo, Erik, and Jim produce the Speaking of Race podcast, and we shared portions of the interview.
Learn more about Dr. Jablonski’s research and teaching at her department webpage: http://anth.la.psu.edu/people/ngj2. Contact Nina Jablonski: Ngj2@psu.edu. Get info about the Finding Your Roots program she develops and runs with Henry Louis Gates http://www.findingyourroots.la.psu.edu/ Tmw119@psu.edu
Find more information about the UA ALLELE series: http://evolution.ua.edu/. Nina Jablonski’s full lecture with video will be posted on the ALLELE Vimeo site: https://vimeo.com/channels/allele/videos
Contact Us: https://www.facebook.com/groups/humanbiologyassociation http://humbio.org/ https://twitter.com/HumBioAssoc
Michaela Howells is Chair of the Publicity Committee, howellsm@uncw.edu. Cara & Chris are committee members and produce this show:
Cara Ocobock http://www.albany.edu/anthro/72074.php cocobock@albany.edu https://twitter.com/CaraOcobock
Chris Lynn http://cdlynn.people.ua.edu/ cdlynn@ua.edu https://twitter.com/Chris_Ly
Interview engineered by Jim Bindon. Lecture recorded by UA’s eTech. Mixing and editing by Chris. Music by the Morning Shakes.
“Sausage of Science” logo by Lux Lynn (LuxL1312@gmail.com).