Dr. Jeremy DeSilva joined us for an interview on SoS 128. This week, in addition to a replay of his original interview, we hear audio excerpted from First Steps: How upright walking made us human by Jeremy DeSilva, read by Kaleo Griffith. Copyright 2021 by Jeremy DeSilva. Production Copyright 2021, HarperCollins Publishers. All rights reserved. You can find First Steps here: https://www.harpercollins.com/products/first-steps-jeremy-desilva
You can find out more about Dr. DeSilva, his lab, and his work here: anthropology.dartmouth.edu/people/jeremy-desilva and on Twitter @desilva_jerry

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SoS 135- How Upright Walking Made Us Human with Dr. Jeremy DeSilva

Chris and Cara talk with Dr. Graciela Cabana, Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Tennessee Knoxville. Dr. Cabana’s work focuses on the human genome from a biosocial and biopolitical context. In particular, she has been working on a project developed to understand how public perspectives of race and nationality are impacted by recent trends of genetic testing in Argentina. To find out more about her work or contact her, visit her website: https://www.mal-utk.com/graciela-s-cabana or follow her on Twitter @GracielaCabana

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SoS 161- Genetic Ancestry, Race, and National Belonging in Argentina with Dr. Graciela Cabana

This week's guest is Dr. Heather Shattuck-Heidorn, an Assistant Professor of Women's and Gender Studies at the University of Southern Maine. Dr. Shattuck-Heidorn is also the Director of Engaged Communications at the Harvard GenderSci Lab. She tells Chris and Cara about the importance of interdisciplinary collaborations and critical thought in producing and communicating good science. She also delves into how to address sex and gender in science and why biological anthropology is particularly well-suited for a better understanding of these important variables. 

You can contact Dr. Shattuck-Heidorn at heather.shattuckheidorn@maine.edu and follow her on Twitter @HeatherSH22

Learn more about the GenderSci Lab at https://www.genderscilab.org

Read Dr. Shattuck-Heidorn and colleagues critique on the study finding sex differences in COVID outcomes here: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-021-03644-7

And read her recent AJHB piece with Dr. Zachary DuBois on challenging the sex binary here: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1002/ajhb.23623?casa_token=cSqxEoTD8t4AAAAA:f5KVfa2v58ReB0n_h0LzdxaIMKJEqglEYuDKgyRf8XsCra6Ixr2jAPrrpqagpyze3EsulNoXBnDZ

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SoS 163 - Bringing Feminist Theory to Bio Anth with Dr. Heather Shattuck-Heidorn

Andrea Silva-Caballero joins Chris and Cara to discuss her studies of adolescent sleep patterns in urban and rural Mexico.

Silva-Caballero completed her BA in Biological Anthropology in 2013 at the National School of Anthropology and History, Mexico City. Since then, she has specialized in medical anthropology with a focus on the pediatric population. She holds an MSc in Evolutionary Medicine awarded in 2017 by the University of Durham, United Kingdom, and is a member of the Durham Infancy & Sleep Center. She’s currently wrapping up revisions on her dissertation.

Silva-Caballero's research reexamines current biomedical ideas concerning adolescent sleep by examining and comparing adolescents' sleep patterns in two rural sites and one urban site in Mexico. In particular, she addresses the phase shift in adolescents' sleep-wake cycle and the influence of artificial light and solitary sleep on their sleep timing and duration. 

Silva-Caballero was also the recipient of HBA’s 2022 E.E. Hunt Award, which recognizes a graduate student for an outstanding presentation or poster at the meeting. Silva-Caballero's poster was titled “Non-WEIRD Circadian Rhythms: Is There An Adolescent Shift in Sleep Timing.” 

Finally, Andrea’s name may be familiar to listeners, as she is a member of our HBA Public Relations team. She is a junior service fellow for HBA & has been managing the website for the past year.
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The abstract for Andrea's 2022 HBA poster, "Non-WEIRD circadian rhythms: is there an adolescent shift in sleep timing?" can be found here:
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/ajhb.23740

Andrea won the Edward E. Hunt Jr. Award for this presentation at this year's HBA conference. Congrats, Andrea!
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Andrea's e-mail address is: andrea.silva-caballero2@durham.ac.uk
Andrea's can be found on Twitter at: https://twitter.com/Barbietrans4mer
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SoS 169: Andrea Silva-Caballero on Whether Technology Affects Adolescent Sleep

Chris and Cara discuss underappreciated athletes before unpacking Big Data with Dr. Elizabeth Miller, an Associate Professor at the University of South Florida. Dr. Miller is a biological anthropologist interested in evolutionary and biocultural approaches to maternal and child health. Her research program spans the study of human milk composition and infant feeding practices, infant immune function in diverse ecologies, maternal iron homeostasis, and early microbiome maturation. 

In this episode, she breaks down her use of a biocultural approach to early growth using data from NHANES to test the effects of social inequalities on birth weight and later height and how it can be used to contextualize potential pathways of embodiment that link social structure and biology.

Her latest publication can be found in AJHB, titled:
A critical biocultural approach to early growth in the United States
Find it here: https://doi.org/10.1002/ajhb.23726
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Dr. Miller's e-mail: emm3@usf.edu
Twitter: @humanbiolab
Website: https://humanbiolab.wordpress.com/
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SoS 182: Dr. Elizabeth Miller and the necessity of a Biocultural Approach

Welcome Sausage of Science's newest host Dr. Mallika S. Sarma! Mallika joins Chris as co-host while Cara is out on sabbatical.

In this episode, Mallika and Chris chat with Dr. Paula Tallman about several aspects of water insecurity, notably an important overlap with gender-based violence. 

Dr. Paula Skye Tallman is an Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Loyola University Chicago. Her research examines the drivers of health inequities among marginalized populations in South America and Southeast Asia, with a focus on connecting this scholarship to environmental and social policy. Dr. Tallman received her B.A. in Behavioral Biology from Johns Hopkins University, her Ph.D. in Biological Anthropology from Northwestern University, and completed a postdoctoral fellowship focused on indigenous well-being and conservation at the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago.  

Her recent publications discussed on the show can be found at the following links, titled:

Water insecurity, self-reported physical health, and objective measures of biological health in the Peruvian Amazon
https://doi.org/10.1002/ajhb.23805

Water insecurity and mental health in the Amazon: Economic and ecological drivers of distress
https://doi.org/10.1002/sea2.12144

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Sausage of Science 183: Paula Tallman discusses water insecurity and gender-based violence

Chris welcomes guest co-host, Cristina Gildee, to chat with Sofiya Shreyer, a Ph.D. student in the Anthropology Department at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Sofiya is passionate about increasing research and education on menopause and other understudied women's health issues, such as PCOS, endometriosis, and sexual wellness. Under the guidance of Dr. Lynnette Sievert, she studies grandmotherhood, variation in caretaking behaviors, and the impact of child-rearing on both grandmaternal and children’s health and well-being. With the outbreak of war in Ukraine, Sofiya’s work toggled to focus on the study of menopause, where she manages and coordinates an ongoing multi-year study on hot flash experiences and brown adipose tissue in perimenopausal and menopausal women. 
Find her recent book chapter, “Aging and Childcare: A Biocultural Approach to Grandmothering in Ukraine” published in Anthropological Perspectives on Aging here: https://upf.com/book.asp?id=9780813069593
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Sofiya’s email: sshreyer@umass.edu
Twitter: @sofiya_shreyer
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SoS 193: Sofiya Shreyer talks Ukrainian Grandmothers, Aging, and Effective Toggling

Prof. Liz Mallott of Washington University in St. Louis joins Chris and Cristina to talk about her research on the human microbiome.
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Dr. Liz Mallott is an assistant professor of Biology at Washington University in St. Louis. Professor Mallott’s research examines how social and environmental determinants of health shape variation in the human microbiome. Current projects examine how exposure to environmental pollutants, which disproportionately impact racial and ethnic minorities in the United States, influences the gut microbiome and cardiovascular disease risk.

Her lab website can be found here:
https://mallott-lab.github.io/

The following are citations for the articles mentioned on today’s show:

Mallott, E. K., Sitarik, A. R., Leve, L. D., Cioffi, C., Camargo Jr, C. A., Hasegawa, K., & Bordenstein, S. R. (2023). Human microbiome variation associated with race and ethnicity emerges as early as 3 months of age. PLoS biology, 21(8), e3002230.

Cepon‐Robins, T. J., Mallott, E. K., Recca, I. C., & Gildner, T. E. (2023). Evidence and potential drivers of neglected parasitic helminth and protist infections among a small preliminary sample of children from rural Mississippi. American Journal of Human Biology, e23889.

Chioma, O. S., Mallott, E., Shah-Gandhi, B., Wiggins, Z., Langford, M., Lancaster, A. W., ... & Drake, W. P. (2023). Low Gut Microbial Diversity Augments Estrogen-Driven Pulmonary Fibrosis in Female-Predominant Interstitial Lung Disease. Cells, 12(5), 766.


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SoS 196: Prof. Liz Mallott talks microbiome!

Twice the Caras! Cara and Cristina interview Dr. Cara Wall-Scheffler, professor and co-chair of Biology at Seattle Pacific University and an affiliate professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Washington. Her research focuses on the evolution of human sexual dimorphism, particularly in the context of balancing the pressures of thermoregulation and long-distance locomotion. She has been working on this problem for over 20 years. Her work demonstrates that different selection pressures have acted on men and women and that women, in particular, have a rare (among mammals) ability to work both efficiently (energy per unit of mass) and economically (total energy) when carrying loads. Women’s abilities are partly due to their relatively small body size, relatively high surface area, relatively broader pelves, and unique methods of thermoregulation. In addition to her research, Dr. Wall-Scheffler teaches courses in human physiology and evolutionary mechanisms on campus and at the Blakely Island Field Station.

Find the publications discussed in today’s episode here: 

Anderson A, Chilczuk S, Nelson K, Ruther R, Wall-Scheffler C (2023) The Myth of Man the Hunter: Women’s contribution to the hunt across ethnographic contexts. PLoS ONE 18(6): e0287101. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0287101

Wall‐Scheffler, C. and H. Kurki, Beyond sex, gender, and other dilemmas: Human pelvic morphology from an integrative context. Evolutionary Anthropology. 2023;1‐13.  https://doi.org/10.1002/evan.22001

Wall-Scheffler CM (2022). Women carry for less: body size, pelvis width, loading position and energetics. Evolutionary Human Sciences 4, e36, 1–17. https://doi.org/10.1017/ehs.2022.35
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Cara Wall-Scheffler’s email: cwallsch@spu.edu, Twitter: @WallScheffler
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SoS 197: Cara Wall-Scheffler talks Women, Energetics, and Hunting

Welcome to Bizarro World, Sausage of Science listeners! Cara is on the show today ...as a guest! She is joined by Sarah Lacy to discuss their recent American Anthropologist articles "Woman the hunter: The physiological evidence" and "Woman the hunter: The archaeological evidence."

Also, please welcome guest host, and HBA webmaster, Courtney Manthey-Pierce.

Find the publications discussed in today’s episode here:

Ocobock, C., & Lacy, S. (2023). Woman the hunter: The physiological evidence. American Anthropologist. https://doi.org/10.1111/aman.13915

Lacy, S., & Ocobock, C. (2023). Woman the hunter: The archaeological evidence. American Anthropologist.  https://doi.org/10.1111/aman.13914

And here is a link to their article in the Nov. 2023 issue of Scientific American:

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-theory-that-men-evolved-to-hunt-and-women-evolved-to-gather-is-wrong/

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​Sarah A. Lacy is a biological anthropologist specializing in paleoanthropology and bioarchaeology. She received a BS in anthropology from Tulane University in 2008 and a PhD in anthropology from Washington University in St. Louis in 2014. She taught at the University of Missouri, St. Louis and at California State University, Dominguez Hills (Los Angeles) before joining the faculty at the University of Delaware in 2023.

Prof. ​Lacy explores dental cavities, periodontal disease, and tooth loss in Neandertals and early modern humans across Europe and Southwest Asia and given the prevalence among recent humans. More than just oral health, she looks at how oral diseases also reveal information about diet, environment, disease susceptibility, and overall health in individuals and populations. 

Her website can be found here:
https://www.anthropology.udel.edu/people/salacy

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Dr. Cara Ocobock is the Director of the Human Energetics Laboratory at Notre Dame. Her research program integrates human biology and anthropology, with a focus on the interaction between anatomy, physiology, evolution, and the environment. She explores the physiological and behavioral mechanisms necessary to cope with and adapt to extreme climate and physical activity. Ocobock works in northern Finland, in collaboration with researchers from the University of Lapland and University of Oulu. 

Prof. Ocobock is also an avid powerlifter and loves to bring anthropology to sport. She has worked with hockey players at the collegiate and semi-professional level as well as collegiate track and field athletes.

Her website can be found here:
https://anthropology.nd.edu/people/faculty/cara-ocobock/

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Sausage of Science 198: Woman the Hunter as told by Sarah Lacy and Cara Ocobock

Dee Jolly, PhD student in anthropology at the University of Oregon, joins Cara and Courtney to discuss how stigma affects the health of trans and gender diverse people.

Dee is currently a 2nd year PhD student, working with Prof. Zachary DuBois. They finished their undergraduate studies at the University of Florida in 2016 and then earned a Master's degree in Medical Anthropology and Cross-Cultural Practice from Boston University in 2018. 

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Sausage of Science 200: Dee Jolly explains how stigma affects trans peoples' health

Cara and Chris chat with Dr. Rob Tennyson, a Postdoctoral scholar in the Department of Biobehavioral Health at Penn State University and a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Sociology Department at the University of Utah, who received his PhD in Biological Anthropology from the University of Washington in 2022. His research focuses on psychosocial stress, aging, and student-athlete mental health and well-being. His research program leverages diversity within and between populations to tease apart how differences in social environments, physical environments, and behavior influence human biological aging, connecting lived experiences to molecular, immunological, and demographic processes.

Find the work discussed in today’s episode here: 
Analyzing COVID-19 Related Disruptions and Psychosocial Stress in Collegiate Student-Athletes https://osf.io/25f4h/

'Legs Feed the Wolf': An Evolutionary Perspective on Psychosocial Stress, Physical Activity, and Telomere Length in NCAA Student-Athletes https://osf.io/s2cuj/
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Contact Rob: robtennyson@gmail.com; website: robtennyson.org Twitter: @RobTennyson_PhD

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Sausage of Science 199: Dr. Rob Tennyson talks telomeres, athletes, and stress

Chris and Cristina sit down with Dr. Molly Fox, Associate Professor of Anthropology and of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences at UCLA. She studies the evolutionary context of chronic disease and the biosocial relationships between grandmothers, mothers, and children.

Her current research projects investigate (1) the biological embedding of immigration and acculturation experiences in Mexican-American women and how this process influences aspects of gestational physiology that are implicated in shaping fetal developmental trajectories, thereby affecting health across generations; (2) psychobiological profiles of postpartum depression risk, etiology, and manifestation; (3) how the human newborn intestinal ecology (microbiome) affects infant cognitive and emotional development, with implications for vulnerability to mental illness; (4) how gestational and lactational (pregnancy and breastfeeding) physiology impose long-term alterations to biophysiology in ways that affect later-life risk of Alzheimer’s and other geriatric disease.

Find the work discussed in today’s episode here: 

Molly Fox,  Delaney A. Knorr, Dayoon Kwon, Kyle S. Wiley, Michael H. Parrish. “How prenatal cortisol levels relate to grandmother-mother relationships among a cohort of Latina women.” American Journal of Human Biology. (2023) https://doi.org/10.1002/ajhb.23883

Molly Fox (2022) How demographics and concerns about the Trump administration relate to prenatal mental health among Latina women. Social Science and Medicine. doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2022.115171
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Contact Molly: mollyfox@ucla.edu; website: mollyfox.mystrikingly.com/ Twitter: @mollymfox
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Sausage of Science 201: Dr. Molly Fox discusses the importance of Latina grandmothers

Listeners, please welcome Achsah Dorsey to the show! In this episode Prof. Dorsey discusses her research on childhood anemia in Peru and casually tosses in an excellent airplane turbulence metaphor to describe human physiology. Stick around for the ABBA shout-out.

Prof. Dorsey joins our regular host, Prof. Chris Lynn, as well as returning guest host Prof. Theresa Gildner. 

Find the publication discussed in today’s episode via this citation:
Dorsey, A. (2023). Biological and Ecological Impacts on Recovery from Anemia Among Peri-Urban Peruvian Children. In Human Growth and Nutrition in Latin American and Caribbean Countries (pp. 397-419). Cham: Springer International Publishing.

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Prof. Achsah Dorsey’s research utilizes life-history and evolutionary medicine perspectives to investigate the relationships between immune activation, body size and growth, and nutritional status in women and children. Her recent research explores the biological, environmental, and cultural links between anemia and infection, the gut microbiome, and home environment in families living in peri-urban communities within Lima, Peru.

She can be contacted via e-mail: adorsey@umass.edu

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SoS 203: Achsah Dorsey discuss anemia in Peru

This week, Chris and guest co-host Cristina catch up with Georgia Scott, a master's student studying bioarchaeology at the University of Nevada, Reno. Her research interests focus on mortuary practices and treatment of the deceased, both past and present. Georgia received her Bachelor of Science in Anthropology from Montana State University and has a background in vertebrate paleontology, zooarchaeology, and museum studies. She is passionate about collaborative methodologies and improving engagement with descendant communities. Her most recent work explores the ethical considerations in bioarchaeological research and publications regarding the use and treatment of human remains. 

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Contact Georgia: georgiascott@nevada.unr.edu
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SoS 202: Georgia Scott: Bioarchaeology, ethics, and perseverance

Listeners, please welcome Ed Hagen to the show! In this episode Prof. Hagen discusses his research on self medication and parasites.
Prof. Hagen joins our regular host, Prof. Chris Lynn, as well as returning guest host Cristina Gildee.
Find the publication discussed in today’s episode via this citation:

Hagen, E. H., Blackwell, A. D., Lightner, A. D., & Sullivan, R. J. (2023). Homo medicus: The transition to meat eating increased pathogen pressure and the use of pharmacological plants in Homo. American Journal of Biological Anthropology, 180(4), 589-617.

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Prof. Hagen investigates tobacco use in the larger context of human use of plant secondary compounds. He investigates depression, suicide, and deliberate self-harm as potential signaling strategies. Child growth and development is a research theme that grew out of his work on postpartum depression. Prof. Hagen also recently begun testing evolutionary models of leadership and knowledge specialization as part of my more general interest in the evolution of human social organization. Finally, he has published a number of theoretical papers on evolutionary approaches to ontogeny, cognition, and behavior.
Blog: https://grasshoppermouse.github.io
Twitter: @ed_hagen
Email: edhagen@wsu.edu

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SoS 204: Everything you need to know about parasites and self medication with Ed Hagen

Chris and special guest co-host Courtney Manthey-Peirce interview Dimitris Xygalatas, author of Ritual: How Seemingly Senseless Acts Make Life Worth Living. Associate Professor in Anthropology and Psychological Sciences at the University of Connecticut and head of the Experimental Anthropology Lab, Dimitris is an anthropologist and cognitive scientist who studies some things that make us human – but not the obvious ones. He is interested in some of the more peculiar aspects of human nature: ritual, music, sports fanship, and other things that help people connect, cope, and live meaningful lives. Dimitris’ research combines experimental methods with ethnographic fieldwork to study human culture holistically over the last several years in Southern Europe and Mauritius.

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Contact Dimitris: xygalatas@uconn.edu
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SoS 205: Dimitris Xygalatas on Fire walking and other things that make us human

Cara is solo hosting this episode! She is joined by Dr. Charles Roseman to discuss the finer points of why/how "adaptionist" thinking can lead us all down scientific dead ends. 

Bonus fun: We also learn a little bit about squirrels and nicotine withdrawal. You know Chris was sorry to miss this episode!

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The Scientific American article "To Understand Sex, We Need to Ask the Right Questions," co-authored by Profs. Roseman and Ocobock can be found here:
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/to-understand-sex-we-need-to-ask-the-right-questions/

Dr. Roseman's video demonstration will be uploaded to the HBA youtube page soon:
https://www.youtube.com/@HumanBiologyAssociation

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Dr. Roseman is an Associate Professor in Evolution, Ecology and Behavior and Anthropology in the School of Integrative Biology at the University of Illinois. His work broadly focuses on genotype phenotype map structure, and the evolution of complex traits. You can view his website here: sib.illinois.edu/profile/croseman and follow him on Twitter @EvoRoseman.

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Contact the Sausage of Science Podcast and Human Biology Association:

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Cara Ocobock, Co-Host, Website: sites.nd.edu/cara-ocobock/, Email:cocobock@nd.edu, Twitter:@CaraOcobock

Eric Griffith, HBA Junior Fellow, SoS producer
E-mail: eric.griffith@duke.edu

SoS 206: Dr. Charles Roseman wants to know -- are you adapt-erific?!

Special Edition HBA Fellow take-over! HBA Junior Fellows Eric Griffith and Courtney Manthey-Pierce co-host this season's final episode with Dr. Meradeth Snow. Dr. Snow is an Associate Professor and Co-Chair of Anthropology at the University of Montana. There, she and her research team analyze ancient and degraded DNA for anthropological and forensic purposes. Her lab focuses primarily on the northern region of prehistoric Mexico. She is here to talk to us today about her most recent paper (currently in review) titled “A Reanalysis of Population Dynamics in the Casas Grandes Region of Northern Mexico Using Mitochondrial DNA.”

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Contact Meradeth: meradeth.snow@umontana.edu
Website: meradethhouston.com; Twitter: @MeradethHouston
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Courtney Manthey-Pierce, Guest-Co-Host, Website: courtneymanthey-pierce.godaddysites.com/ E-mail: cpierce4@uccs.edu, Twitter: @HolyLaetoli

Eric Griffith, Guest Co-Host, HBA Junior Fellow
E-mail: eric.griffith@duke.edu

Cristina Gildee, HBA Junior Fellow, SoS producer
Website: cristinagildee.org, E-mail: cgildee@uw.edu, Twitter:@CristinaGildee

SoS 207: Dr. Meradeth Snow: aDNA in Paquimé (Casas Grandes)

Listeners, please welcome Dr. Sheina Lew-Levy to the show! In this episode Prof. Lew-Levy discusses the importance of social learning among children to the study of evolution. Stick around for some gardening tips!

Find the publication discussed in today’s episode via these citations:

Pretelli, Ilaria, Alyssa N. Crittenden, Edmond Dounias, Sagan Friant, Jeremy Koster, Karen L. Kramer, Shani M. Mangola, Almudena Mari Saez, and Sheina Lew‐Levy. "Child and adolescent foraging: New directions in evolutionary research." Evolutionary Anthropology: Issues, News, and Reviews (2023): e22020.

Lew‐Levy, Sheina, Wouter van den Bos, Kathleen Corriveau, Natália Dutra, Emma Flynn, Eoin O'Sullivan, Sarah Pope‐Caldwell et al. "Peer learning and cultural evolution." Child Development Perspectives (2023).

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Using methods from anthropology and psychology, Prof. Lew-Levy conducts research in hunter-gatherer societies to understand the cultural diversity in, and evolution of, social learning in childhood. Specifically, Prof. Lew-Levy uses quantitative and qualitative methods to study how and from whom children learn through meaningful participation in every day activities. With Forager Child Studies, her interdisciplinary research team conducts cross-cultural reviews and secondary data analysis on the pasts, presents, and futures of forager children's learning.

Since 2016, Prof. Lew-Levy has worked with egalitarian BaYaka foragers and their farmer neighbours in the Congo Basin. Her primary research uses behavioural observations to understand social learning.


She can be contacted via e-mail: sheina.lew-levy at durham.ac.uk 

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Eric Griffith, HBA Junior Fellow, SoS producer
E-mail: eric.griffith at duke.edu

SoS 208: Prof. Lew-Levy explains the evolutionary relevance of peer learning in children

Listeners, please welcome Dr. Eric Griffith to the show ...as a guest! In this episode, Eric takes a break from producing to talk about his research regarding human variation in dementia. 

Find the publication discussed in today’s episode via this citation:

Griffith EE. (2023). “Recruiting Participants for Dementia Research Without Saying ‘Dementia’: A Site Study in Central Mexico.” In: Anthropological Perspectives on Aging, BM Howell & RP Harrod eds., University of Press of Florida.

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Dr. Eric Griffith received his Ph.D. in anthropology from the University of Massachusetts Amherst, as well as an MA in psychology from Boston University. He completed his dissertation fieldwork in central Mexico, focusing on the experiences of familial caregivers for people living with Alzheimer’s disease. Eric’s research interests include biocultural anthropology, dementia, cognitive aging, health disparities, and mixed methods research. Eric is currently a T32 postdoc at the Duke University Center for the Study of Aging and Human development. He also worked as a postdoctoral fellow with the Samuel DuBois Cook Center at Duke University on the project “The influence of religion/spirituality on Alzheimer’s Disease and its related dementias (ADRD) for African Americans."

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Contact the Sausage of Science Podcast and Human Biology Association:

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Eric Griffith, HBA Junior Fellow, SoS producer
E-mail: eric.griffith at duke.edu

SoS 209: Anthropological perspectives on dementia with Dr. Eric Griffith

Cara and guest co-host Cristina sit down with Dr. Chris Kuzawa, the John D. MacArthur Professor & Faculty Fellow at the Institute for Policy Research at Northwestern University. He uses principles from anthropology and evolutionary biology to gain insights into the biological and health impacts of human developmental plasticity. His primary field research is conducted in Cebu, the Philippines, where he and his colleagues work with a large birth cohort study that enrolled more than 3,000 pregnant women in 1983 and has since followed their offspring into adulthood (now 30 years old). They use the nearly 3 decades of data available for each study participant, and recruitment of generation 3 (the grand offspring of the original mothers), to gain a better understanding of the long-term and intergenerational impacts of early life environments on adult biology, life history, reproduction, and health. A theme of much of his work is the application of principles of developmental plasticity and evolutionary biology to issues of health. 

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Contact Chris: kuzawa@northwestern.edu
Website: https://sites.northwestern.edu/kuzawa/; Twitter:@ChrisKuzawa
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Contact the Sausage of Science Podcast and Human Biology Association:
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Cara Ocobock, HBA Public Relations Committee Chair,
Cara Ocobock, Co-Host, Website: sites.nd.edu/cara-ocobock/, Email:cocobock@nd.edu, Twitter: @CaraOcobock

Cristina Gildee, HBA Junior Fellow, SoS producer
Website: cristinagildee.org, E-mail: cgildee@uw.edu, Twitter: @CristinaGildee

SoS 210: Dr. Chris Kuzawa on the Developmental Origins of Health and Disease (DOHaD)

Listeners, please welcome Prof. Ben Trumble to the show! Prof. Trumble joins us to talk about his fascinating research on how oral health can affect cardiovascular disease risk and cognitive health later in life.

Find the publication discussed in today’s episode via this citation:

Benjamin C Trumble, Matthew Schwartz, Andrew T Ozga, Gary T Schwartz, Christopher M Stojanowski, Carrie L Jenkins, Thomas S Kraft, Angela R Garcia, Daniel K Cummings, Paul L Hooper, Daniel Eid Rodriguez, Kenneth Buetow, Bret Beheim, Andrei Irimia, Gregory S Thomas, Randall C Thompson, HORUS Team, Margaret Gatz, Jonathan Stieglitz, Caleb E Finch, Michael Gurven, Hillard Kaplan.

Poor oral health is associated with inflammation, aortic valve calcification, and brain volume among forager-farmers, The Journals of Gerontology: Series A, 2024;, glae013, https://doi-org.proxy.lib.duke.edu/10.1093/gerona/glae013

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Benjamin Trumble is an associate professor in the School of Human Evolution and Social Change and the Center for Evolution and Medicine and the Institute of Human Origins.

His work focuses on chronic diseases of aging, working to understand how environmental conditions like parasites, pathogens, food availability, and social interactions impact human health. Taking an evolutionary life history perspective, he uses field and laboratory studies to understand variation in human endocrine systems, and how this influences chronic health conditions like benign prostatic hyperplasia, cardiovascular disease, and Alzheimer’s dementia.

Prof. Trumble's website can be found here: https://trumblelab.org/

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Courtney Manthey-Pierce, Co-Host, 
Website: courtneymanthey-pierce.godaddysites.com/ E-mail: cpierce4@uccs.edu, Twitter: @HolyLaetoli

Alex Niclou, special returning Co-Host

Eric Griffith, HBA Junior Fellow, SoS producer
E-mail: eric.griffith at duke.edu

SOS 211: Prof. Ben Trumble Explains the Connection Between Oral Health and Cognitive Aging

Chris and Eric catch up with Dr. Melanie Martin, an Associate Professor in the University of Washington Department of Anthropology, whose research examines biocultural influences on health, growth, and development across the life course. In addition to being the Co-PI of the Biodemography Lab at the University of Washington Center for Studies in Demography and Ecology, she conducts field research with two international projects on Indigenous community health and well-being: the Chaco Area Reproductive Ecology Program (Co-Director) and the Tsimane Health and Life History Project (Affiliate). In this episode, Dr. Martin breaks down two of her papers, one looking at COVID-19 transmission in mothers and infants and another examining sleep health in undergraduates before and during the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Find the papers discussed in this episode:

Martin MA, Keith M, Pace RM, Williams JE, Ley SH, Barbosa-Leiker C, Caffé B, Smith CB, Kunkle A, Lackey KA, Navarrete AD, Pace CDW, Gogel AC, Eisenberg DTA, Fehrenkamp BD, McGuire MA, McGuire MK, Meehan CL and Brindle E (2022) SARS-CoV-2 specific antibody trajectories in mothers and infants over two months following maternal infection. Front. Immunol. 13:1015002. https://doi.org/10.3389/fimmu.2022.1015002

Alicia Rice, Olivia Sather, Kenneth P Wright, Céline Vetter, Melanie A Martin, Horacio O de la Iglesia, COVID-19 stay-at-home restrictions increase the alignment in sleep and light exposure between school days and weekends in university students, Sleep, Volume 46, Issue 7, July 2023, zsad059, https://doi.org/10.1093/sleep/zsad059
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Contact Melanie: martinm7@uw.edu
Website: https://www.melaniemartin-anthropologist.com/
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Chris Lynn, Co-Host, 
Website: cdlynn.people.ua.edu/, E-mail: cdlynn@ua.edu, Twitter:@Chris_Ly
Eric Griffith, Guest Co-Host, HBA Junior Fellow
E-mail: eric.griffith@duke.edu

Cristina Gildee, HBA Junior Fellow, SoS producer
Website: cristinagildee.org, E-mail: cgildee@uw.edu, Twitter:@CristinaGildee

SoS 212: Melanie Martin talks mother-infant COVID-19 transmission and social jetlag

Prof. Lesley Gregoricka joins Chris and Eric to explain her work in the field of bioarchaeology. Topics include everything from strontium isotope analysis to the ethics of legacy collections of human remains. Stick around for a diversion to King Cakes and Mardis Gras.

The article discussed on this episode can be found via this citation:

Gregoricka, L. A. (2023). The ethics of excavating: bioarchaeology and the case for rehabilitating legacy human skeletal collections in the Near East. Levant, 55(3), 294-303.

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Bioarchaeologist Dr. Lesley Gregoricka is a Professor of Anthropology in the Department of Sociology, Anthropology, and Social Work at the University of South Alabama. Her research focuses on prehistoric mortuary practices and the chemistry of ancient human teeth and bones to examine changing patterns of mobility and the evolution of social complexity in Arabia and the broader Middle East. 

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Eric Griffith, HBA Junior Fellow, SoS producer
E-mail: eric.griffith at duke.edu

SoS 213: Prof. Gregoricka Discusses the Ethics of Legacy Collections and Other Bioarch. Topics

How can marmosets inform human birth experiences? Are there really four types of human pelvises? What happens when primates birth litters?

Prof. Julienne Rutherford joins Chris and Eric to answer these questions and more!

Find the articles discussed on this episode via the following citations:

Rutherford, J.N., Ross, C.N., Ziegler, T., Burke, L.A., Steffen, A.D., Sills, A., Layne Colon, D., Demartelly, V.A., Narapareddy, L.R. and Tardif, S.D., 2021. Womb to womb: Maternal litter size and birth weight but not adult characteristics predict early neonatal death of offspring in the common marmoset monkey. Plos one, 16(6), p.e0252093.

VanSickle, C., Liese, K.L. and Rutherford, J.N., 2022. Textbook typologies: challenging the myth of the perfect obstetric pelvis. The Anatomical Record, 305(4), pp.952-967.

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Dr. Julienne Rutherford is Professor and John & Nell Mitchell Endowed Chair for Pediatric Nursing in the University of Arizona College of Nursing. She is a biological anthropologist whose work integrates bioanthropological theory with biomedical science. For 20 years, she has sustained a program of research exploring the intrauterine environment as a biosocial determinant of health. She studies how maternal life history and lived experience shape this earliest developmental setting, and how, in turn, the intrauterine environment influences growth, health, and development across the life course and across generations. 

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Eric Griffith, HBA Junior Fellow, SoS producer
E-mail: eric.griffith at duke.edu

SoS 214: Prof. Julienne Rutherford talks about marmoset births and human pelvises

Dr. Sean Rafferty is an archaeologist at the University at Albany. His office is right next door to Cara’s. He was one of Chris’ professors in grad school. Sean’s focus has moved from strictly cognitive and Northeastern U.S. archaeology to the philosophy of skepticism. While Chris fondly remembers Sean as skeptical by nature, he has delved deeper into the discipline, theory, and literature of skepticism and teaches several courses and sections on it to UAlbany students.

Cara hosts Science on Tap lectures at a local pub in Albany, and Sean gave a lecture for her on skepticism. Episode 2 is the audio of that lecture. We interviewed Sean as a way to set up the episode, and we all have so many words, we decided to split it into two parts.

Learn more about Sean’s research and teaching at his department webpage: http://www.albany.edu/anthro/rafferty.php

Sean got into skepticism by listening to podcasts (fancy that!), so we asked him what some of his favorite podcasts are and promised to provide links to them here:

●	Skeptics Guide to the Universe - http://www.theskepticsguide.org/

●	Center for Scientific Inquiry - http://www.pointofinquiry.org/

●	Skepticality - https://www.skepticality.com/

●	Skeptic Magazine - http://www.skeptic.com/podcasts/

●	Monster Talk - http://monstertalk.skeptic.com/

●	Skeptoid - https://skeptoid.com/

●	Society for Science Based Medicine - http://sfsbm.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=163&Itemid=786

●	Sisyphus Speaks - http://sfsbm.org/sysiphusspeaks.com/

●	Penn Jillette - http://pennsundayschool.com/

●	The Cracked - http://www.cracked.com/podcast/

●	Buzzfeed - https://www.buzzfeed.com/podcasts

Classroom Materials
Calling Bullshit Syllabus: http://callingbullshit.org/

Recommended Books: 
The Demon Haunted World - Carl Sagan
You are not so smart - David McRaney
Nonsense on Stilts - Massimo Piglucci
The Believing Brain - Michael Shermer
Abominable Science - Donald Prothero
Reality Check: How Science Deniers Threaten our Future - Donald Prothero

Contact Sean Rafferty:
srafferty@albany.edu  
Journal of Northeast Anthropology http://www.albany.edu/northeast_anthropology/, neanthro@albany.edu 

Contact Us:
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Cara Ocobock
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cocobock@albany.edu
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Chris Lynn
http://cdlynn.people.ua.edu/
cdlynn@ua.edu
https://twitter.com/Chris_Ly  

The song in the soundbed is “Broke 4U Baby” by the Morning Shakes, Chris’ band from the 1990s.

SoS2: Science on Tap: Sean Rafferty and Scientific Skepticism (Part B)

Dr. Nina Jablonski is Evan Pugh Professor of Anthropology at Penn State University. She is a primatologist and paleoanthropologist but has also become among the foremost experts in the world on the biology and evolution of human skin pigmentation. She is author of Living Color: The Biological and Social Meaning of Skin Color (2012) and Skin: A Natural History (2006).

Dr. Jablonski was interviewed by Chris, along with Jo Weaver and Erik Peterson, while in Tuscaloosa, AL to give a lecture for the ALLELE speaker series. The interview was recorded by Jim Bindon. Jo, Erik, and Jim produce the Speaking of Race podcast, and we shared portions of the interview.

Learn more about Dr. Jablonski’s research and teaching at her department webpage: anth.la.psu.edu/people/ngj2. Contact Nina Jablonski: Ngj2@psu.edu. Get info about the Finding Your Roots program she develops and runs with Henry Louis Gates www.findingyourroots.la.psu.edu/ 
Tmw119@psu.edu

Find more information about the UA ALLELE series: evolution.ua.edu/. Nina Jablonski’s full lecture with video will be posted on the ALLELE Vimeo site: vimeo.com/channels/allele/videos

Contact Us:
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twitter.com/HumBioAssoc

Michaela Howells is Chair of the Publicity Committee, howellsm@uncw.edu. Cara & Chris are committee members and produce this show:

Cara Ocobock
www.albany.edu/anthro/72074.php 
cocobock@albany.edu
twitter.com/CaraOcobock

Chris Lynn
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cdlynn@ua.edu
twitter.com/Chris_Ly

Interview engineered by Jim Bindon. Lecture recorded by UA’s eTech. Mixing and editing by Chris. Music by the Morning Shakes.

“Sausage of Science” logo by Lux Lynn (LuxL1312@gmail.com).

SoS4: How Skin Color is an Evolutionary Adaptation - Nina Jablonski Part B

This week on the Sausage of Science, we are debuting our new series installment, "Hackademics". In this miniseries, we are going to be talking about under-discussed issues in academia, including imposter syndrome, mental health, and navigating hostile research environments. We are thrilled to start this series with Dr. Agustin Fuentes, the Edmund P. Joyce C.S.C. Professor of Anthropology at the University of Notre Dame. Dr. Fuentes shares his own personal experience coming back (or, at least, attempting to) from his doctoral research. Additionally, he shares his advice for navigating this experience as a student, as well as ways that mentors and departments can provide more support for post-field students. Currently, Dr. Fuentes' research explores the roles of creativity and imagination in human evolution, multispecies anthropology, evolutionary theory, and the structures of race and racism. To learn more about him email him, check out his university webpage https://anthropology.nd.edu/faculty-and-staff/faculty-by-alpha/agustin-fuentes/, send him an email at afuentes@nd.edu, or follow him on twitter @AnthroFuentes.

The Sausage of Science is produced by Cara Ocobock and Chris Lynn, with assistance from Junior Service Fellow Caroline Owens for the Public Relations Committee of the Human Biology Association. The song in the soundbed is “Always Lyin’” by the Morning Shakes.

Contact the Sausage of Science and Human Biology Association:
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Cara Ocobock, Website: https://sites.nd.edu/cara-ocobock/, Email:cocobock@nd.edu, Twitter:@CaraOcobock

Chris Lynn, Website:cdlynn.people.ua.edu/, Email:cdlynn@ua.edu, Twitter:@Chris_Ly

Caroline Owens, Email: cowens8@emory.edu, Twitter: @careowens

SoS 48- #Hackademics: Coming Back from the Field with Agustin Fuentes

Dr. Rebecca Gibson, a visiting Assistant Professor at the University of Notre Dame, shares her fascinating research on the history of corsets in this week’s episode. Dr. Gibson’s primary research examines changes in the skeletal structure of women who wore corsets between 1700-1900 CE. She also discusses her work exploring the romantic and sexual entanglements of AI and robotics in science-fiction. 

Follow Dr. Gibson on twitter @RGibsongirl and check out her author’s page at https://www.facebook.com/TheCorsetedSkeleton.

Check out the paper and book referenced in the episode here:

Article: “Effects of long term corseting on the female skeleton: a preliminary morphological examination” https://www.academia.edu/16410795/Effects_of_Long_Term_Corseting_on_the_Female_Skeleton_A_Preliminary_Morphological_Examination

Book: “Desire in the Age of Robots and AI” https://www.palgrave.com/gp/book/9783030240165

Contact the Sausage of Science and Human Biology Association:
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Michaela Howells, Public Relations Committee Chair, Email: howellsm@uncw.edu

Cara Ocobock, Website: sites.nd.edu/cara-ocobock/, Email:cocobock@nd.edu, Twitter:@CaraOcobock

Chris Lynn, Website:cdlynn.people.ua.edu/, Email:cdlynn@ua.edu, Twitter:@Chris_Ly

Caroline Owens, Email: cowens8@emory.edu, Twitter: @careowens

Theresa Gildner, Email: Theresa.E.Gildner@dartmouth.edu, Twitter: @TEGildner

SoS 66 – Corseting, what a waist! with Dr. Rebecca Gibson

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