Short‐ and Long‐Term Impact of Exogenous Hormones on Thermoregulation in Women

Objectives How the body changes its methods of thermoregulation as part of the female ovarian cycle is a crucial aspect of human adaptive strategies to negotiate variable environments and tasks. The...

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Climate Exposures Increase the Risk of Anemia Among Reproductive‐Age Women in Low‐ and Middle‐Income Countries

Climate change is having significant demographic and health impacts on human populations around the world. There is growing empirical evidence about the impacts of climate variability and change on p...

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<fi>American Journal of Human Biology</fi> Now Accepting Study Protocol Manuscripts

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Stress Processes and Resilience Pathways of Sexually and Gender Diverse Communities: A Narrative Review of 15 Years of Evolving Research Priorities and Practices

Sexually and gender diverse (SGD) people in North America have navigated significant sociopolitical shifts that continue to shape their lived experiences. Given the persistent exposure to stigma, SGD...

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Study Protocol: Homelessness and Health: Integrating Structural, Social, and Behavioral Pathways

This protocol paper describes the methods of a multi-year study examining individual, community, and structural-level influences on health among people experiencing homelessness in a mid-sized Oregon....

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Exclusive Breastfeeding and Growth Trajectories Until 5 Years of Age Among Children Monitored in Primary Health Care in Brazil

Objectives Exclusive breastfeeding (EBF) is relevant for child growth, especially in contexts of socioeconomic vulnerability. This study estimates growth trajectories until 5 years of age according ...

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Temporal Changes in Nutritional Status, Body Composition and Intestinal Parasitic Infections Among Mbyá‐Guaraní Children and Adolescents From Misiones, Argentina: A Comparison of Two Cross‐Sectional Studies

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Increased Vulnerability to Dehydration Due to Heat Stress and Drought Across Reproductive States for Pastoralist Women in Northern Kenya

Objectives Extreme weather events, like drought and heat stress, make it harder to meet water needs in water-insecure settings, particularly vulnerable groups. This study examines how short-term (he...

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Reproductive Ecology and Evolutionary Anthropology: Foundations, Unanswered Questions, and Future Directions

The research field of reproductive ecology continues to be a major contributor to the scientific advancement of evolutionary anthropology and human biology in general. Primary contributions to human ...

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Longitudinal Growth Patterns in Boys and Girls Aged 9–14 Years by Birth Season

Background and Objectives Birth season has been proposed as a proxy for various prenatal and early-life environmental exposures that may influence human growth and development. This study aimed to e...

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Pandemic Patterns: The Long‐Term Health Outcomes of 1918 Influenza Survivors in the St. John's General Hospital of Newfoundland and Labrador

Objectives Research surrounding the 1918 influenza pandemic has primarily been a story of mortality despite theoretical and practical reasons to focus on the pandemic's long-term impacts. We investi...

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Peri‐Pubertal Height Shifts and Stable Photoperiod‐Associated Geographic Patterning Before and After <fc>COVID</fc>‐19 in Japanese Children

Objectives Geographic variation in child body size in Japan has previously been associated with effective day length, a light-related measure. We tested whether this prefecture-level geographic stru...

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Sexual Dimorphism in Facial and Body Shape and Their Relationship in Modern Humans of African, Asian, and European Descent

Objectives Our study aimed to quantify the degrees of sexual dimorphism in facial shape and nineteen body parameters across eleven living populations from three major world regions: Sub-Saharan Afri...

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Connectedness to Nature, Ceremonial Participation, and Mental and Physical Health Among Rural and Urban Wixárika in Jalisco, Mexico

Objectives Research in Western samples has repeatedly demonstrated a link between exposure to nature and natural stimuli and improved health. We sought to test these relationships in a sample of Ind.....

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Relationships Among Maternal Epstein–Barr Virus Antibodies, <fc>COVID</fc>‐19, and Stress in Mothers up to 1‐Year Postpartum

Objectives Both psychosocial stress and current infection can increase the likelihood of reactivation of latent Epstein–Barr virus (EBV). Pregnancy and infection with SARS-CoV-2 can be stressful and.....

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Can We Generalize About the Mortality Features of the 1918‐19 Influenza Pandemic? An Examination of a Small‐Scale and Isolated British Columbian Population

Objectives In this paper we use the small-scale population of the Fort George area (located in the central interior of British Columbia, Canada) to test the applicability of the three signature mort...

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Patterns of Chronic Stress in Diurnal Salivary Cortisol Already Predict Epigenetic Age Acceleration in Young Adults in the Cebu Longitudinal Health and Nutrition Survey

Epigenetic clocks estimate biological aging through age-related DNA methylation patterns and are known to accelerate in response to adversity. While cortisol links stress experiences to cellular agin...

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SoS 285: Female Reproductive Function and Fieldwork Adventures

In this episode, hosts Cara and Anna talk with Dr. Virginia Vitzthum about novel findings in female reproductive functioning across populations, tell exciting fieldwork stories, and reflect on the cha

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Physiological Responses to Occupational Heat Exposure Among Male Agricultural and Brick‐Field Workers in Eastern India: A Biochemical Perspective

Occupational heat exposure is considered a major health concern for workers performing strenuous work during hot environmental conditions. This cross-sectional study aimed to assess the biochemical a...

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SoS 284: Dr. Amy Boddy Explains Microchimerism: How Much of You Is Actually You?

Join us for a conversation with Dr. Amy Boddy, Professor of Anthropology at UC Santa Barbara and head of the Boddy Lab, a human evolutionary biologist whose work asks why cancer varies across the anim

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Measuring Dynamic Inflammation Regulation in Low‐Resource Settings: Results From a Sample of Adults in the Dominican Republic

Introduction Inflammatory signaling mediates several homeostatic mechanisms that shape health, and quantifying inflammation regulation patterns using ex vivo cell culture systems—response to activat...

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SoS 283: Non-academic Career Paths, Inflammation, and Ovarian Function with Dr. Anneliese Long

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

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SoS 282: Interrogating Human Exceptionalism in Primate Research with Dr. Christine Webb

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 p

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SoS 281: Industrialization and the Environmental Mismatch: The Case for Returning to Nature with Dr. Danny Longman and Dr. Colin Shaw

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 o

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SoS 280: The Measure of Motion with Dr. Christine Harper

Chris and Cristina sit down with Dr. Christine Harper, a biological anthropologist and Assistant Professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Washington, whose research focuses on

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The Geographical Distribution of Lactose Tolerance‐Associated Alleles 13910*T and 13915*G Is Strongly Linked to Male Founder Events in Eurasia

Lactose tolerance (lactase persistence) represents a very progressive human adaptation, the origins of which remain incompletely understood. This study aims to examine the geographical distribution o....

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SoS 279: The AABA Task Force Recommendations for the Ethical Study of Human Remains with Dr. Fatimah Jackson and Dr. Ben Auerbach

In this episode, hosts Cara and Chris speak with Dr. Fatimah Jackson and Dr. Ben Auerbach about the American Association of Biological Anthropologists Task Force on the ethical study of human remains

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