Interdisciplinarity in biocultural investigations of structural vulnerability: Emerging research directions, ethical questions, and potential applications

Meredith Marten, Benjamin Burgen

Utilizing the concept of structural vulnerability in human biology research

Paula Tallman, Royana Yousefzai

Survivor-advocacy and cycles of care: An anthropological examination of structural sexism and gender-based violence on human health and perceived well-being

Taylor Savannah-Anne Perritt

Leveraging forensic anthropological data to inform social change: The link between antemortem tooth loss and poverty is a structural problem to solve

Allysha Powanda Winburn

Food Insecurity and Physiological Stress Amongst People Experiencing Housing Insecurity

IK Albiani, TL Walker, AL Van Steenis, EA Shirtcliff, LZ DuBois, JJ Snodgrass, LJ Weaver

The effects of environmental risk and market integration on parental investments in Chakaria, Bangladesh

Nafi Mohammad Ali, Mary Katherine Shenk, Manzoor Ahmed Hanifi, Nurul Alam

Relationships between maternal Epstein-Barr virus, COVID-19, and stress in mothers up to 1-year postpartum

Emma Anastasi, Delaney Glass, Tiffany Pan, Ryan M. Pace, Janet E. Williams, Sylvia H. Ley, Celestina Barbosa-Leiker, Mark A. McGuire, Michelle K. McGuire, Courtney L. Meehan, Melanie Martin

An evolutionary medicine and life history perspective on later life disease risks: The antagonistic roles of mTOR, IGF-1, AMPK, and Klotho

Jacob E Aronoff, Benjamin C Trumble

Increased vulnerability to dehydration and heat stress among pregnant and lactating Daasanach women in northern Kenya

Suha Arshad, Kedir Teji Roba, Hannah Jacobson, Natalie Carol Meriwether, Anna Tavormina, Amanda McGrosky, Srishti Sadhir, Grace Khosi, Nicole Lynn Bobbie, Rosemary Nzunza, David Braun, Emmanuel Ndiema, Herman Pontzer, Asher Rosinger

Exploring trauma, mental health, and resilience during the Palestinian genocide: A literature review.

Sameeha Atout, Andrew Wooyoung Kim

Integration to market economies and secular changes in anthropometric characteristics of Maya children from Yucatan, Mexico

Hugo Azcorra, Julio Cesar Lara-Riegos, Maria Teresa Castillo-Burguete, Nina Méndez-Domínguez, Juan Carlos Salazar-Rendón, C. Marjorie Aelion, Thomas Leatherman

Ecologies of death: culture, religion, ecology, and mortuary practices in Tanna, Vanuatu

Patrick Baca, Eddy Kiel, Siobhán M. Cully

Expanding anthropological methods: Detecting lymphocyte anergy using minimally-invasive techniques

Jade Alexandra Beauregard, Elizabeth Anne Quinn, Theresa Elizabeth Gildner

How valid are parent-report dietary assessment tools for estimating young children’s dietary intake? A systematic review

Traci A Bekelman, Fadia Chehadeh, Catherine C Cohen, Celeste Connell, Roberta Gomez Diaz Barreiro, Christopher Hollander, Kameron J Moding, Christi Piper, Alexandra Stamatoiu, Cindy Zavala

Pre-med students’ cortisol profiles, anxiety, and social support dynamics while preparing for the Medical College Admissions Test (MCAT)

Lauren Elise Bell, Elsa Mueller-Filipas, Lee T Gettler

Changes in risk factors for postmenopausal breast cancer among Bangladeshi migrants in London

Gillian R Bentley, Carlye Chaney, Robert T Chatterton, Lauren C Houghton, Shanthi Muttukrishna, Alejandra Núñez-de la Mora, Lynnette L Sievert

Associations between infant body composition, breastfeeding practices, and maternal perception of infant eating behavior in Samoan mother-infant dyads aged 1-4 months

Victoria Bertacchi, Katherine Daiy, Lupesina Vesi, Kima Faaselele-Savusa, Aniva Reupena, Take Naseri, Christina Soti-Ulberg, Jyothi Abraham, Richard G Bribiescas, Nicola L Hawley

High degree of variation among mtDNA haplogroups in two Amazonian horticulturalist populations

Egda Desirée Bogen, Suhail Ghafoor, Dan K Cummings, Paul L Hooper, Heather Highland, Kari E North, Daniel Eid Rodriguez, Gregory S Thomas, Jonathan Stieglitz, Michael Gurven, Amanda J Lea, Margaret Gatz, Caleb E Finch, Hilly Kaplan, Ben C Trumble, Kenneth H Buetow

Evaluating the use of dried blood spots and whole capillary blood to measure aging biomarkers in a geriatric population 

Willow Butler, Jacob Griffin, David Lynch, Mark Sorensen

Elucidating the causal pathway linking social determinants of health to changes in the gut microbiome through inflammatory pathways in two low-resource U.S. communities

Carlye Brennan Chaney, Theresa E Gildner, Tara J Cepon-Robins, Kiersten Grathwohl, Shan Wang, Jennifer Ong, Leena Kwak, Kaylaa Betts, Jade Beauregard, Katherine L Nemeth, Sophie Waimon, Angela Zhang, Alexander B Shing, Lizzy Kim, Marcela Pfaff-Nash, Anna Samsonov, Samuel S Urlacher, Elizabeth Mallott

The embodied colonial legacies of the “Anglophone Problem”: birth and prenatal care at the axis of sociolinguistic marginalization

Ca'la Kian Connors, Christopher Kuzawa

Coping with water insecurity: women's strategies and emotional responses in Iztapalapa, Mexico City

Paloma Contreras, Tina Lasisi

Does body surface area predict core temperature change? Preliminary results from four climatic exposures

Libby Cowgill, Michelle Hoskins, Cara Ocobock, Elizabeth Cho, Scott Maddux

BDNF methylation during adrenarche and its association with early life social-emotional environment

Tristan T Cruz, Elizabeth A Holdsworth

Inking of Immunity: Does oxytocin mediate the relationship between tattooing and immune function in Samoa?

Adam Daly, Siobhán M. Cully, Tomasz Nowack, Michael Muehlenbein, Christopher D. Lynn

Placental pathways of stress: Investigating the interplay between social and physical stressors in Birth Outcomes

L J Daniels-Day, E A Quinn

Perceptions and utilization of antibiotics among Samoan mothers: a thematic analysis

Katherine Daiy, Kima Savusa, Lupesina Vesi, Faafofola Unasa, Jyothi Abraham, Take Naseri, Christina Soti-Ulberg, Analosa Magele, Billie White, Claudia Valeggia, Nicola Hawley

Intersecting Identities and Health: Exploring Social Determinants of Health and Black Masculinities in Ibero-America

Rosseirys Noelia De La Rosa, Anderson Reis de Sousa, Johis Ortega

Market integration in an era of disruption: Food access and resilience in Chilean Patagonia

Achsah Foster Dorsey, Eric Harrion Thomas

Pride protects where it counts: State of residence moderates the relationship between transgender identity-pride and allostatic load

L. Zachary DuBois, Dee Jolly, Jae A Puckett, Sally I Powers, Debra A Hope, Richard Mocarski, Robert-Paul Juster

The impact of endemic violence on the nutrition of pastoralist adolescents in Northern Kenya

Valentina Dziecinny Vazquez, Aubree Keegan Kaliski, Ivy L. Pike

Comparing policies for mitigating drug-resistant gonorrhea: an agent-based modeling approach

Marcy Ekanayake-Weber, Minttu Ronn, Xuecheng Yin, Yunfei Li, Joshua Salomon, Yonatan Grad, Reza Yaesoubi

Ecological immunity and breast milk immunological profiles of two populations of mothers in Belém, Brazil

SR Fannin, BA Piperata, RE Kopec, ACB de Azevedo, CS do Nascimento, RBT Oliveira, CA da Paz, JMF Pereira, VCT da Silva

Minoritized but not understood: a review of biocultural health outcomes and needs among Southwest Asian and North African (SWANA) adolescents in Canada and The United States

Alexa Chanté Fairclough- Dick, Hani Al-Samawi, Aya Ahmad, Delaney JoLynn Glass

Predictive risk factors for diagnosed diabetes and elevated blood glucose differ by sex in Vanuatu (South Pacific)

ME Gauck, K Wander, A Roome, E Standard, KN Dancause, G Taleo, L Tarivonda, KM Olszowy

Higher lipid levels after the transition to menopause for women in two forager-horticulturalist populations

Madeleine J Getz, Jacob E Aronoff, Carrie L Jenkins, Suhail Ghafoor, Jennifer Vazquez, Nicole T Appel, Margaret Gatz, Egda D Bogen, Daniel K Cummings, Paul L Hooper, Bret Beheim, Kenneth Buetow, Caleb E Finch, Gregory S Thomas, Jonathan Stieglitz, Michael Gurven, Hillard Kaplan, Benjamin C Trumble

Assessing changes in fatigue after deep brain stimulation using qualitative and quantitative self-report measures

Linda M Gerber, Kaiulani S Shulman, Megan S Wright, Joseph J Fins, Nicholas D Schiff

Joint perspectives from community residents and research team members: The need for community-engaged work to address flooding-related environmental inequities in Cahokia Heights, IL

TE Gildner, EK Mallott, C Chaney, KL Nemeth, JA Beauregard, A Samsonov, C Masteller, TJ Cepon-Robins, ND Nelson, K Jackson, M Hill, K Moehrs Gardner, Y Lyles

Analysis of stress and social support in LGBTQ family formation in the US South

Vaden Elaine Grigg, Rebecca Cai Ting Wu, Anneliese Marie Long, Amanda Logan Thompson

The Connection Between Postpartum Depression and Milk Immune Specificity

Alli Harkenrider, Natalie Mourou, Masako Fujita, Kathy Wander

Ozempic messaging through social media: stigma, medicalization, and pharmaceutical usage

Teagan Louise Hayes

Life-history variation in hematocrit among children in Utila, Honduras

Carolyn R. Hodges-Simeon, Jessica K. Hlay, Madison A.C. Honig, Nicole Merullo, Izabel Rodriguez-James, Brooke A. Rothamer, Caroline B. Smith, Aaron D. Blackwell

Gender differences in nail cortisol, EBV antibody titers, and blood pressure among refugees in Serbia

Jelena Jankovic-Rankovic, Rahul C Oka, Jerrold S Meyer, Geeta N Eick, J. Josh Snodgrass, Samuel S Urlacher, Lee T Gettler

A meta-analysis of the DOHaD hypothesis in the context of market integration and food insecurity 

Krishangi Jasani, Makenna B Lenover Moyer, Laura Perez, Mary Katherine Shenk

Chronic pain and allostatic load among older adults in the United States

Dee Jolly, L. Zachary DuBois

Making the case for using an inquiry-based approach that incorporates DNA-focused activities in introductory biological anthropology laboratory curricula

SL Johnston, MK Knabb, J Auld, L Rieser-Danner

Human development and somatic maturation among 9-11 year old children from 12 countries

PETER KATZMARZYK

Impacts of pregnancy planning on birth outcomes vary among racialized groups in the US

Monica Keith, Taylor Harman, Melanie Martin

Exploring the Immunological Mechanisms of Oral Immunotherapy in Food Allergy Desensitization

Kaily Khaloyan

The Students’ Gambit: Canadian university students’ perceived vulnerability to disease and situational COVID-19 risk in the transition back to campus

Erica Kilius, Leela McKinnon, Ming Fei Li, David R. Samson

Measurement of leptin, a marker of energy status and appetite regulation, in dried blood spots using enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay

Elizabeth Y. Kim, Luna S. Orozco, Emma G. Shoemaker, Hannah N. Cantrell, Josh J. Snodgrass, Melissa A. Liebert, Felicia C. Madimenos, Jeffrey Gassen, Tomasz J. Nowak, Sally P. Weaver, Erich J. Baker, Larry S. Sugiyama, Michael P. Muehlenbein, Samuel S. Urlacher

Hunter-gatherers in transition: estimations of diet composition and food security among Hadzabe hunter-gatherers

Miriam C Kopels, Alyssa N Crittenden

Evidence that male and female body composition responds equally to seasonal food deprivation, but women are advantaged under starvation

KAREN L KRAMER, Joseph Hackman

Variability in inflammatory regulation patterns in young adults across repeated measures using a minimally invasive cell culture system

Keegan C Krause, Thomas W McDade, Alistair Keggen, Aaron A Miller, Madeline Harrington, Jacob E Cheadle, Aprile D Benner, Bridget J Goosby

Qualitative interviews exploring the benefits of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) in a sample of adults diagnosed with ADHD

Amanda E Kunkle, Dan TA Eisenberg

Dam-induced displacement and disruption are associated with cortisol concentration and patterns of diurnal variation

Cassie C Lee, Aaron A Miller, Thomas W McDade, Patrick M Owuor

Intestinal health, parasite infection, & WASH access among people experiencing houselessness in the USA

Abiel K Locke, Mackenzie Ní Flainn, Allissa L Van Steenis, Tara J Cepon-Robins, Lesley Jo Weaver, J Josh Snodgrass

Perspectives on the Rising Cost of Parenthood: Exploring Childbearing Goals, Barriers, and Facilitators among Nulliparous Individuals in North Carolina

Anneliese Long, Karen B Guzzo, Morgan K Hoke, Rebecca C Wu, Amanda L Thompson

Comparing urban and rural prenatal care accessibility and determinants in North Carolina

Julia Ann Mackessy, Amanda Logan Thompson

Social experiences and political dynamics of Hepatitis B among Chinese Americans living in the San Francisco-Bay Area: an ethnographic study

Mo Mao, Andrew Wooyoung Kim

Rest-activity patterns and sleep timing in urban and rural Wixárika communities in Jalisco, Mexico

Leela McKinnon, Eric C Shattuck, Igor Ramos Herrera, René Crocker Sagastume, Quetzabel de la Cruz, Pari Temai González Hernández, Addy Villaseñor, Yara Martin, Paola Pérez, Sofia Muñoz, Thankam Sunil, David Samson

Subsistence strategies as mediators of undernutrition through severe drought among Daasanach pastoralists in northern Kenya, 2019-2024

Natalie Meriwether, Hannah Jacobson, Anna Tavormina, Kedir Teji Roba, Amanda McGrosky, Suha Arshad, Nicole Bobbie, Kiera Papa, Gabriella Berger, Natalie Kitts, Grace Khosi, Srishti Sadhir, Emmanuel Ndiema, Matthew Douglass, Rosemary Nzunza, David Braun, Herman Pontzer, Asher Rosinger

A review of the Biocultural Approach in Canadian Medical Anthropology

Maha Mian, Lianne Tripp

Iron deficiency, measured by soluble transferrin receptor and ferritin, is associated with reported infertility in U.S. women who have never been pregnant

Elizabeth Miller

Cumulative lifetime changes in urbanicity and the pace of biological aging: a test using epigenetic clocks in metropolitan Cebu, Philippines

Silvio Ernesto Mirabal Torres, Calen P. Ryan, Nanette R. Lee, Delia B. Carba, Julia L. MacIsaac, David T. S. Lin, Parmida Atashzay, Michael S. Kobor, Christopher W. Kuzawa

Attitudes and awareness of intestinal parasites: A qualitative pilot study among the indigenous Qom/Toba in northern Argentina

Paula A Monguí, Lisandra Mancilla, Mirtha Perez, Nestor N Ocampo, María L Zonta, Graciela T Navone, Claudia Valeggia

What explains variation in childhood blood pressure? An exploration of life history variables affecting blood pressure in Utila, Honduras

Nicole Merullo, Aaron D Blackwell, Gabrielle N Busi, Jessica K Hlay, Madison AC Hönig, Izabel Rodríguez-James, Brooke A Rothamer, Caroline B Smith, Carolyn R Hodges-Simeon

Body and identity in the digital age: a bioanthropological analysis of aesthetic norms of young adults in Brazil

Franckel Moreau

“Parenting, partnership, and physiology: The influence of conflict and emotions on hormone synchronization in couples”

Elsa M. Mueller-Filipas, Sarah Dennis, Lee T. Gettler

Daily physical activity levels among subsistence-society children and adolescents in the Congo Basin

Henry Nadile, Sheina Lew-Levy, David R. Samson, Aisha Mir, Vidrige Kandza, Haneul Jang, Francy Kiabiya Ntamboudila, Derlan Bihoundou Mouketou, Chelvin Destin Siassia Vindou, Evrad Ngalekandza, Roglane Goulou, Chancelline Mboutou, Adam Howell Boyette, Lee T. Gettler

Interactions between the Val66Met BDNF Polymorphism and Vigorous Physical Activity on Brain Volume in Middle-Aged and Older Adults

Anamika Nanda, Daniel H. Aslan, M. Katherine Sayre, Pradyumna K. Bhardwaj, Madeline Ally, Hyun Song, Amit Amora, Silvio Maltagliati, Mark H.C. Lai, Rand R. Wilcox, Yann C. Klimentidis, Gene E. Alexander, David A. Raichlen

Rural Embodiment and Community Health (REACH) study: Measuring childhood physical activity using accelerometry in low-resource United States communities

Katherine L Nemeth, Tara J Cepon-Robins, Jade A Beauregard, Carlye Chaney, Elizabeth K Mallott, Anna Samsonov, Theresa E Gildner

Development and optimization of a bacteria killing assay for assessing innate immune function using human saliva

Tomasz Nowak, Jeffrey Gassen, Sean Prall, Michael Muehlenbein

“I never don’t have water because I collect rainwater”: Water insecurity and sociocultural factors in an Indigenous community of northern Argentina

Sofia Irene Olmedo, Claudia Rita Valeggia, Cecilia Palavecino, Rafael Perez-Escamilla

Minimally invasive measurement of zonulin, a key biomarker for environmental enteric dysfunction and childhood growth faltering, in dried blood spot samples

Luna S. Orozco, Elizabeth Y. Kim, Emma Shoemaker, Laila Fahed, Jeffery Gassen, Tomasz J. Nowak, Sally P. Weaver, Erich J. Baker, Michael P. Muehlenbein, Samuel S. Urlacher

Agua a cuentagotas: estrategias ante la inseguridad hídrica y sus efectos en la salud psicosocial de mujeres cabezas de familia en colonias populares de Xalapa, Veracruz, México.

María José Palmeros de la Rosa, Alejandra Nuñez de la Mora, Adriana Rodríguez Barraza

Embodied breastfeeding experiences of shame and guilt: An interdisciplinary approach between human biology and engaged philosophy

Nerli Paredes Ruvalcaba, Ayomide Yomi-Odedeyi

Does corn flour consumption influence iron absorption and anemia in children in Kilimanjaro?

S Patel, A Altman, M Gauck, B Kitali, S Saca, F Shirima, N Ng’unda, Z Massawe, B Kavishe, E Muro, P Melendez-Noriega, S Winter, T Assenga, N Sawe, I Haule, H Uronu, AA Uronu, A Masokoto, E Samky, E Ngomu, I Mushi, J Feruzi, S Semuva, I Swai, R Philemon, I Kiwelu, B Mmbaga, K Wander

Effectiveness of group antenatal care in increasing healthcare utilization and improving maternal and infant outcomes in Malawi

Crystal L Patil, Elizabeth T Abrams, Xiaohan Mei, Li Liu, Allissa A Desloge, Esnath Kapito, Ellen Chirwa, Genesis Chorwe-Sungani, Kathleen F Norr

Preliminary analysis of radial bone mineral density in an urban NYC and rural subsistence-level female cohort

SC Pirtle, FC Madimenos, JJ Snodgrass, MA Liebert, SS Urlacher, LS Sugiyama, SB Levy

Climate change and health among Rendille people in Kenya

AC Pisor, D Singh, DO Omia, E Osoro, D Oketch, MK Njenga

Relationship between Salivary Cortisol and Epigenetic “Clock” Measures of Biological Aging

Sasha R Post, Calen P Ryan, Nanette R Lee, Delia B Carba, Julie L MacIsaac, David TS Lin, Parmida Atashzay, Michael S Kobor, Christopher W Kuzawa

Age and sex patterns in the size and kin-makeup of children’s playmate networks

BA Rothamer, AD Blackwell, L Glowacki, JK Hlay, MAC Hönig, N Merullo, I Rodríguez-James, CB Smith, CR Hodges-Simeon

Ecological and social determinants of early life oxidative stress: Preliminary findings from a low-resource U.S. community

A Samsonov, JA Beauregard, KL Nemeth, C Chaney, J Ainsley, D Mukundan, S Hotter, EK Mallott, TJ Cepon-Robins, TE Gildner, SS Urlacher

A Life History Perspective on Maternal Reproductive Investment and Skeletal Health

Annie Megan Santamaria, Paloma Contreras, Brigid Gregg

Effects of Vegetable and Fruit Juicing on Gut and Oral Microbiome Composition

Maria Luisa Savo Sardaro, Veronica Elisabeth Grote, Jennifer Yijung Baik, Marco Atallah, Katherine Ryan Amato, Melinda Ring

Associations between adult peer rankings of child health and indicators of child well-being among BaYaka foragers and Bandongo fisher-farmers in the Congo Basin

NK Shabu, AH Boyette, V Miegakanda, MS Sarma, S Lew-Levy, LT Gettler

Acculturation and its influence on social support and breastfeeding among Puerto Rican mothers in the US

Kassandra Kay Schleper

Connectedness to nature, participation in traditional religious ceremonies, and health among rural and urban Wixárika in Jalisco, Mexico

Eric C Shattuck, Leela McKinnon, Igor Ramos Herrera, Rene Crocker Sagastume, Quetzabel de la Cruz, Pari Temai González Hernández, Addy Villaseñor, Yara Martín, Paola Pérez, Sofia Muñoz, Thankam Sunil, David Samson

The impact of pathogen exposure and water insecurity on children’s growth: A pilot study among rural Maasai communities in Oloirouwa, Kenya

Anna Shinina Shani, Samuel Urlacher

Blood pressure at midlife among women in the Brazilian Amazon

Hilton P. Silva, Ligia A. Filgueiras, Lynnette L Sievert

Unraveling population histories: Mitochondrial DNA analysis in the Casas Grandes region of Mexico

Meradeth Snow, Michael Searcy, Tre Blohm, Samuel Jensen, Jose Luis Punzo Dias, Courtney Manthey

Biocultural perspectives on perceived economic insecurity and chronic stress: resilience strategies of women experiencing food insecurity in Minatitlán (Mexico)

Geneviève Lola Stone, Alejandra Núñez-de la Mora, Mhairi Gibson, Tania Griffin, Angeliki Papadaki, Lucía Contreras, María Eugenia Ordaz

Immigration concerns for family and maternal health vulnerabilities

Anamaria Solis, Kyle Steven Wiley, Carina Heckert

Inflammation and energy status among Daasanach pastoralists

Anna Tavormina, Amanda McGrosky, Kedir Teji Roba, Hannah Jacobson, Nicole Bobbie, Grace Khosi, Suha Arshad, Natalie Meriwether, Elena Hinz, Srishti Sadhir, Matthew Douglass, Rosemary Nzunza, David Braun, Emmanuel Ndiema, Zane Swanson, Samuel Urlacher, Asher Rosinger, Herman Pontzer

CRP and Health Predictors in Indigenous Quechua Women

Gracie Mae Cherye Turner, Rocio Chavez Cabello, Violeta Rojas Bravo, Amanda Veile

Physiological pathways to health and substance use among people experiencing housing insecurity in Oregon

Allissa L. Van Steenis, Elizabeth A. Shirtcliff, Mackenzie Ní Flainn, Zachary L. DuBoise, Jo L. Weaver, Josh J. Snodgrass

Maternal nutritional status, breastfeeding practices and child health among Guatemalan Maya and non-Maya children

Maria Ines Varela-Silva, Miya Edwards, Alice Irving

Border-community related stress and psychological distress during pregnancy among Latinas living at the United States-Mexico Border

Kyle Steven Wiley, Anamaria Solis, Sireesha Reddy, Carina Heckert

Community-Level Economic Inequality and Metabolic Health: A Hierarchical Regression Approach

Adriana Wisniewski, Alicia M DeLouize, J Josh Snodgrass, Paul Kowal, Nirmala Naidoo, Srean Chhim, Sauvuth Chin, Heng Sopheab, Morgan K Hoke, Linda Adair, Amanda L Thompson

Coping strategy or long-term adaptive response? Food sharing networks in a multi-ethnic Indigenous peri-urban community in the Brazilian Amazon

Harold M Wright, Barbara A Piperata, Sean S Downey

Application of non-destructive DNA extraction protocol and single-strand library preparation for kinship analysis

Shaelyn Lee Zimmerman, Shelby Rose Feirstein, Evan Sommer, Meradeth Snow

Neuropsychiatric sequelae of long COVID among adults: a cross-sectional study in Johannesburg, South Africa

Andrew Wooyoung Kim, Someleze Swana, Simiso Sokhela, Samanta Tresha Lalla-Edward, Ncomeka Manentsa, Alexander Tsai, Willem Daniel Francois Venter

Application of machine learning models to evaluate the relationship between household diet patterns and child growth among the Indigenous Shuar of Ecuador

Kate Lynne Pogue, Marcela Pfaff-Nash, Melissa Ann Liebert, Felicia C Madimenos, Josh J Snodgrass, Theresa G Gildner, Tara J Cepon-Robins, Aaron D Blackwell, Richard G Bribiescas, Lawrence S Sugiyama, Samuel S Urlacher

Health Condition in different Phenotypes of Systemic Arterial Hypertension in young people from Primary Care of the Brazilian Unified Health System

Randerson José de Araujo Sousa, Gabriel Parente Bernardes, Rayan Moura Patrik Naim, Victor Fernando Xavier Laurindo da Silva, Luiz Emanuel Batista Lima, Igor Dutra Tschope Tschope, Katsuki Coelho Yano Yano, Anthony Marcos Bryam Oliveira Pereira, Ligia Amaral Filgueiras, Elizabeth Silaid Muxfeldt

Heritability and reliability of self-reported age at menarche in a group of Mayan women and girls

Layla Hope Akin, Amanda Rowlands, Katrina Salvante, Pablo Nepomnaschy

Building a culturally-determined and place-based model of Indigenous health

Ruby Fried

Challenges to pregnancy and postpartum care during the Covid-19 pandemic in a capital city in the Amazon, Brazil

Priscila Ester Lima da Silva, Hilton Pereira da Silva, Roseane Bittencourt Tavares Oliveira, Pedro José Tótora da Glória, Barbara A. Piperata

Sickness culture and perception among the Hadzabe foragers

Shilpa Shiju, Jadyn Forman, Eric Shattuck, Kristen Herlosky, Ibrahim Mabulla, Alyssa Crittenden

Screening for Obstructive Sleep Apnea and the cardiovascular profile of young people from Primary Care in the Brazilian Amazon

Randerson José de Araujo Sousa, Gabriel Parente Bernardes, Rayan Moura Patrik Naim, Bruno Antônio Gomes Silva, Clara Sofia da Silva Oliveira, Danna Carvalho Veiga, Emilly Pinheiro da Cruz, Ligia Amaral Filgueiras, Elizabeth Silaid Muxfeldt

Midwifery Integration and Home-to-Hospital Transfer Rates in the United States

Meredith Neil Aulds, Amanda Veile, Melissa Cheyney, Marit Bovbjerg

Social Determinants of Maternal Femicide in the United States

Brandice N Evans, Magdalena Hurtado

Sexual and gender diversities (GSD) across four generations – representative study from Poland

Magdalena Ewa Mijas, Karolina Koziara, Bartosz Grabski, Monika Folkierska-Żukowska, Wojciech Łukasz Dragan

Examining the association between childhood adversity and adult psychiatric sequelae of Long COVID: A cross-sectional study in Johannesburg, South Africa

Someleze Swana, Simiso Sokhela, Samanta Tresha Lalla-Edward, Ncomeka Manentsa, Willem Daniel Francois Venter, Andrew Wooyoung Kim

An examination of the variation in adult anthropometric measurements in relation to childhood social factors using computed tomography scans

Adrianna Nicole Wiley, Cristina Lama, Michelle E Cameron

Wearable laboratories, AI, and other advances: Potential pitfalls and opportunities for progress in human evolutionary biology research

Richard Bribiescas

The artificial intelligence revolution in science: Possibilities, considerations, and limitations for applications in human biology

AM DeLouize, WR Leonard, JJ Snodgrass

What’s Old is New Again: Community-Engaged Human Biology and Ethical Praxis for the Next 50 Years

Horvey M. Palacios, Raquel E. Fleskes

Biología Humana Latinoamericana para el siglo XXI: una oportunidad para imaginar sinergias.

Alejandra Núñez-de la Mora, Hugo Azcorra Pérez, Diana Bueno Gutierrez, Isaura Cruz, Federico Dickinson, Daniela Hortensia Guerra Medrano, Rolando González-José, Aimé López González, Paula A Monguí, Pablo Nepomnaschy, Paloma Contreras, Sofía Irene Olmedo, Nerli Paredes Ruvalcaba, Hilton Pereira da Silva, Ana Gabriela Perroni Marañón, Anahí Ruderman, Alanna Rudzik, Martha Alicia Ruiz Velasco Muñoz, Andrea Silva Caballero, Claudia Valeggia

Beyond Total Expenditure: Integrating Brain Energetics into Anthropological Inquiry

Emily H Barron, Christopher W Kuzawa

Silicone wristbands: a new non-invasive method for measuring human exposure to organic chemicals

Mecca Howe

Genetics and videogames: from scientific dissemination to knowledge production

Rafael Bisso-Machado, Melanie Stegman

Harnessing Innovative Data for Studies of Human Health

Amanda L Thompson, Lisa Pearce

Examining pathways underlying the association between maternal depressive symptoms and infant weight outcomes

Morgan K. Hoke, Heather Wasser, Margaret Bentley, Amanda L. Thompson

Birth and household exposures are associated with changes to skin bacterial communities during infancy

Melissa B Manus, Maria Luisa Savo Sardaro, Omolola Dada, Maya Davis, Melissa R Romoff, Stephanie G Torello, Esther Ubadigbo, Rebecca C Wu, Maria Gloria Dominguez-Bello, Melissa K Melby, Emily S Miller, Katherine R Amato

Into the mouths of babes: complementary feeding practices and dietary diversity among a cohort of infants living in the urban Brazilian Amazon

Barbara Ann Piperata, Talita Cestonaro, Fannin Stephanie, Ana Carolina da Silva Brito de Azevedo, Christian Hoffmann

Effects of Climate Change on Infant and Young Child Feeding: Heat and Breastfeeding Patterns in Bangladeshi Fisher-Traders

Katie Starkweather, Haley Ragsdale, Margaret Butler, Fatema Tuz Zohora, Nurul Alam

Urinary cell-free mitochondrial DNA levels among Indigenous Shuar children of Ecuador: Insights into childhood stress biology and energetics

Samuel S Urlacher, Jeremy Michelson, Anna Samsonov, Amanda Peng, Felicia C Madimenos, Melissa A Liebert, J Josh Snodgrass, Lawrence S Sugiyama, Martin Picard

Practices, knowledge, and social organization related to the problematic use of glue in Qom/Toba children

Christina Elizabeth Pantzer

Somatotype and physical activity levels (PAL) of Tengger Tribe (aged 12-20 years)

Josephine Remedios Syandra Siagian, Eneng Nunuz Rohmatullayaly, Tetri Widiyani

Do adolescents in non-WEIRD environments have fewer sleep complaints?

Andrea Silva-Caballero, Helen Ball, Karen Kramer, Gillian Bentley

Adolescent parental relationships and adult family formation perspectives in LGBTQ+ individuals: Results from Add Health

Rebecca Cai Ting Wu, Amanda Logan Thompson

Associations between longitudinal measurements of persistent organic pollutants and height, weight, and sexual maturation

Casey N West, Mia V Gallo, Lawrence M Schell

The hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis, metabolic energy, and their effects on the timing of reproductive maturation among a group of Mayan adolescent girls

Amanda Rowlands, Katrina Salvante, Pablo Nepomnaschy

Do epigenetic clocks reflect the pace of life history during development?

Sofia C Carrera, Chris W Kuzawa

Estrogen recycling by the gut microbiome: Why it matters, how we differ, and the role of lifestyle factors

Rebecca Shae Anna Brittain, Grazyna Jasienska, Richard Gutierrez Bribiescas

How prenatal psychological distress relates to a novel marker of placental activity among pregnant Latina women

Delaney Knorr, Yazhen Zhu, Hsian-Rong Tseng, Molly Fox

Does C-reactive protein (CRP) vary with photoperiod in healthy adult women native to circumpolar environments?

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Conversion Therapy Exposure is Associated with Increased Cardiovascular Disease Risk Among a Diverse Cohort of Sexual and Gender Minority Young Adults

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