Happy Mother s Day: To All the Allomothers
The kiddo at about five months with my sister. Once a week I get four allergy shots and then sit in a small waiting room for thirty minutes to make sure I don’t have any adverse reactions.
Context and Variation
Human behavior, evolutionary medicine… and ladybusiness.
Trade Time and Energy So You Can Live Slow, Reproduce Fast
Who makes your food? Do you live alone and do everything yourself, or are you part of a partnership, roommate situation, or extended family where food is shared?
I Can Out-Interdiscipline You: Anthropology and the Biocultural Approach
Anthropology is an inherently interdisciplinary field. We draw from evolutionary theory, feminist theory, critical race theory, we compare within and between primates, we even manage to work with the occasional rodent or suid species.
Why We Shouldn't Prescribe Hormonal Contraception to 12 Year Olds
This is a re-post, with slight editing, of a piece I wrote on the old blog after last year's AAPA meetings. I would like to keep thinking on this topic so thought I would share this before I write anything new for the Sci Am space.
Your Ability to Handle Your Environment is Correlated with your Hormones
Natural selection acts not on a behavior itself, but on the factors that produce that behavior, and/or the outcome of that behavior. So if we want to have an evolutionary explanation for a behavior, it’s important to understand both what drives it and its consequences.
American Association of Physical Anthropology Meetings this week: Portland, Oregon
Another year, another podium presentation. This year I want to redeem myself: last year I rocked my first presentation on hormonal contraception (woo hoo!), then was too exhausted to be remotely coherent for my second on diet composition and C-reactive protein (though to be fair, I was also chairing that session).
Building Babies: Interview with Julienne Rutherford
As I mentioned Wednesday, Building Babies , the volume edited by me, Katie Hinde and Julienne Rutherford will be out in only a few months in one of the fastest turnarounds I know of for a book of this nature.
Building Babies: Interview with Katie Hinde
After almost two years of work, Building Babies is off to the presses, due to be out late August/early September! Building Babies: Primate Development in Proximate and Ultimate Perspective is a volume co-edited by me, Katie Hinde, and Julienne Rutherford about the many mechanisms and broader adaptations involved in – you guessed it – building a (primate) baby.
Retrograde Reactions: Lady in the Field on the Aftermath of Sexual Misconduct
The comments on the guest post by “Hazed” demonstrate that she is not the only person to experience sexual harassment in the field. And so I must share with you the next post in this series on harassment while doing fieldwork by “Lady in the Field.” Like “Hazed,” “Lady” is brave to share her story with us.
Vaginal pH Redux: Primate Vaginal Microbial Communities and Your Health
E. coli image by Nathan Reading via Flickr Creative Commons pool. E. coli is bacteria often present in the vaginal microbial community of individuals with bacterial vaginosis.
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