51st Meeting of the
Human Biology Association
March 18-20, 2026 | Denver, CO, USA
Conference Agenda
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Session Overview |
| Date: Friday, 20/Mar/2026 | |
| 8:00am - 9:30am |
Podium D: Food Systems, Microbiomes, and Cardiometabolic Health Location: Governer's Square 14 Chair: Achsah Foster Dorsey Urbanization Does Not Always Mean Loss: Microbiome Diversity Patterns in the Turkana of Kenya 8:07am - 8:14am Intestinal microbiota change in households abandoning food production in Maya agriculturalists from the Yucatán Peninsula. 8:14am - 8:21am How complex dietary fibers can be used to shape the human gut microbiome toward reduced inflammatory potential 8:21am - 8:28am Food sharing is associated with higher food variety and dietary diversity in a multi-ethnic Indigenous peri-urban community in the Brazilian Amazon 8:28am - 8:35am Are evolutionary models linking economic insecurity and obesity supported in Minatitlán (Mexico)? Insights from a biocultural study conducted among food-insecure women 8:35am - 8:42am Two-Eyed Seeing: Indigenous ecological knowledge and cardiometabolic disease risk 8:42am - 8:49am Gender, wealth-type, place, and country-food policy: A multicountry analysis of obesity and hypertension 8:49am - 8:56am Obesity and its association with hypertension and dyslipidaemia in adults from Mansa district, Punjab: a population-based cross-sectional study 8:56am - 9:03am Role of One Carbon Metabolic Pathway Genes and Folate Status on Antihypertensive Drug Response among Rural Adults in Punjab, India 9:03am - 9:10am Demographic correlates of cardiovascular disease and inflammation among adults from southwest Illinois and the Mississippi Delta 9:10am - 9:17am Anthropometric and lipid Predictors of hypertension among adolescents in Delhi NCR. 9:17am - 9:24am Testing relationships between weight status, weight perception, and depression among US adolescents across varying epidemiological contexts: A biological normalcy approach using 2023 national YRBS data |
| 9:30am - 9:45am |
Coffee Break |
| 9:45am - 11:15am |
Podium E: Childcare, Nutrition, and Growth Location: Governer's Square 14 Chair: Jessica Hlay Parental investment theory and the concept of "on demand" breastfeeding 9:52am - 9:59am The effects of women’s work on breastfeeding outcomes and time allocation in Bangladeshi Shodagor fishing and trading communities 9:59am - 10:06am Maternal perceptions and infant temperament shape early feeding practices in low-income African American dyads 10:06am - 10:13am Do infant feeding practices in Bolivian Aymara communities vary with infant gender, expressed parental gender preference, and/or household economic strategy? 10:13am - 10:20am Head versus Length Growth: The Role of Infection and Nutrition among Breastfed Infants in Michigan 10:20am - 10:27am Household socioeconomic conditions and the infant gut microbiome across the first nine months of life in the urban Amazon 10:27am - 10:34am Paternal care behaviors associated with differential diversity and relative abundance of infant gut and skin microbiota 10:41am - 10:48am Household composition and children’s dietary and nutritional intake in a rural Darai village, Nepal 10:48am - 10:55am Intestinal energy loss among Indigenous Shuar children of Amazonian Ecuador: Insights into human energetics, life history, and health 10:55am - 11:02am Simulating the effects of health and nutrition interventions on human growth 11:02am - 11:09am Secular trends in physical fitness among Azorean primary school children 11:09am - 11:16am Evaluating the relationship between household factors and male pubertal development in Utila, Honduras |
| 11:30am - 1:00pm |
EAS Symposium: What the nexus of human biology and behavior can tell us about human evolution Location: Governer's Square 14 Chair: Siobhán M. Cully Chair: Karen L Kramer Introduction to EAS Session 11:34am - 11:41am Salivary testosterone predicts developmental variation in children’s play networks beyond age effects in Utila, Honduras 11:41am - 11:48am Associations between caregiver presence, child cortisol, and nutritional status among BaYaka foragers in the Republic of the Congo 11:48am - 11:55am Converging pathways of social factors and health: market integration (MI), kin support, and hypertension in small-scale society 11:55am - 12:05pm Coalitions matter for both men and women: insights from three subsistence communities in southwest Ethiopia 12:05pm - 12:12pm An evolutionary view on gendered kidney transplantation in Bangladesh 12:12pm - 12:22pm Charity begins at home: The importance of kinship and other biologically-relevant variables in cooperation research 12:22pm - 12:29pm Who deserves to be helped? Global perspectives on social welfare, generosity, and mutual aid 12:29pm - 12:41pm Traversing a fitness valley in the Pliocene: Dietary shifts and the impact of handling costs on hominin evolution 12:41pm - 12:53pm An automated geospatial urbanicity index for anthropological field sites 12:53pm - 1:00pm Adaptive variation in social exchange: embodied wealth and strategies of in investment in kin and cooperators |
| 7:00pm - 10:00pm |
EAS Party |