Applying an evolutionary mismatch framework to understand disease susceptibility

AJ Lea, AG Clark, AW Dahl, O Devinsky, AR Garcia… - PLoS …, 2023 - journals.plos.org
Noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) are on the rise worldwide. Obesity, cardiovascular
disease, and type 2 diabetes are among a long list of “lifestyle” diseases that were rare …

Tradeoffs between immune function and childhood growth among Amazonian forager-horticulturalists

SS Urlacher, PT Ellison, LS Sugiyama… - Proceedings of the …, 2018 - National Acad Sciences
Immune function is an energetically costly physiological activity that potentially diverts
calories away from less immediately essential life tasks. Among developing organisms, the …

Pathogen disgust sensitivity protects against infection in a high pathogen environment

TJ Cepon-Robins, AD Blackwell… - Proceedings of the …, 2021 - National Acad Sciences
Disgust is hypothesized to be an evolved emotion that functions to regulate the avoidance of
pathogen-related stimuli and behaviors. Individuals with higher pathogen disgust sensitivity …

Measuring subjective social status in children of diverse societies

D Amir, C Valeggia, M Srinivasan, LS Sugiyama… - Plos one, 2019 - journals.plos.org
Subjective Social Status (SSS) is a robust predictor of psychological and physiological
outcomes, frequently measured as self-reported placement on the MacArthur Scale of …

[HTML][HTML] Childhood daily energy expenditure does not decrease with market integration and is not related to adiposity in Amazonia

SS Urlacher, JJ Snodgrass, LR Dugas… - The Journal of …, 2021 - Elsevier
Background Childhood overweight and obesity (OW/OB) is increasingly centered in low-and
middle-income countries (LMICs) as rural populations experience market integration and …

Bringing the lab bench to the field: Point‐of‐care testing for enhancing health research and stakeholder engagement in rural/remote, indigenous, and resource‐limited …

FC Madimenos, TE Gildner, GN Eick… - American Journal of …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Point‐of‐care testing (POCT) allows researchers and health‐care providers to bring the lab
bench to the field, providing essential health information that can be leveraged to improve …

Cognitive foundations for helping and harming others: Making welfare tradeoffs in industrialized and small-scale societies

AW Delton, AV Jaeggi, J Lim, D Sznycer… - Evolution and Human …, 2023 - Elsevier
For many abilities, such as vision or language, our conscious experience is one of simplicity:
We open our eyes and the world appears; we open our mouths and grammatical sentences …

Constraint and trade-offs regulate energy expenditure during childhood

SS Urlacher, JJ Snodgrass, LR Dugas… - Science …, 2019 - science.org
Children's metabolic energy expenditure is central to evolutionary and epidemiological
frameworks for understanding variation in human phenotype and health. Nonetheless, the …

[PDF][PDF] Reflections on nutrition in biological anthropology

DL Dufour, BA Piperata - American journal of physical …, 2018 - researchgate.net
Some 50 years ago, and befittingly at an AAPA dinner, Stanley Garn delivered the
Presidential Address, which he titled Nutrition in Physical Anthropology. In his address, Garn …

Limited microbiome differences in captive and semi-wild primate populations consuming similar diets

S Kuthyar, K Watson, S Huang… - FEMS microbiology …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Gut microbial communities are shaped by a myriad of extrinsic factors, including diet and the
environment. Although distinct human populations consistently exhibit different gut …