AnthroBiology Podcast
1) Dr. Eric Shattuck – How do humans act when we get sick and why?
Dr. Eric Shattuck of Florida State University joins the show to discuss his research on sickness behavior. He wants to know how humans tend to act when they get sick and why they act that way. R...Show More
2) Dr. Erin Blankenship-Sefczek – How does developmental stress affect dental morphology?
Summary Dr. Erin Blankenship-Sefczek of Creighton University joins the show to discuss her research examining the connection between developmental stress and accessory cusps in teeth. Her work focuse...Show More
3) Dr. Samantha Yaussy - What can frailty in skeletons from medieval London teach us about health?
Dr. Samantha Yaussy of James Madison University joins the show to discuss her research on the how sex, socioeconomic status, and developmental stress and the intersectionality therein might interact t...Show More
4) Dr. Habiba Chirchir - Why did humans evolve to have less robust skeletons?
Dr. Habiba Chirchir of the Ohio State University joins the show to discuss her research into the skeletal gracilization of modern humans. She's trying to understand when and why our skeletons became l...Show More
5) Dr. David Orton – Rats in Europe and Zooarchaeology
Dr. David Orton of the University of York joins the show to discuss how he uses zooarchaeology (the study of animal remains in archaeological contexts) to understand the how rat and human populations ...Show More
6) Dr. Henry Erlich - Genetic Reconstruction of the Past
Dr. Henry Erlich, Researcher Emeritus at Benioff UCSF Children's Hospital, joins the show to discuss his book, Genetic Reconstruction of the Past: DNA Analysis in Forensics and Human Evolution. We cha...Show More
7) Dr. Christopher Schmitt - Vervets and woolly monkeys
Dr. Christopher Schmitt of Boston University joins the show to talk about how he uses life history theory and epigenetics as a lens for his work with vervets and woolly monkeys. We also chatted about ...Show More
8) Dr. Kate Clancy - Period: The Real Story of Menstruation
Dr. Kate Clancy of Indiana State University Urbana-Champaign joins the show to talk about her book, Period: The Real Story of Menstruation. We touch on what periods are, why humans might menstruate, f...Show More
9) Dr. Rebecca Gilmour - Roman bioarchaeology
Dr. Rebecca Gilmour of Mount Royal University talks about bones, their mechanics, and how we can use both to understand humans' lives in the past -- especially around her main focus of disability and ...Show More
10) Dr. Jesse Goliath - Forensic anthropology
Dr. Jesse Goliath of Mississippi State University joins the show to talk about forensic anthropology, including how he ended up in forensic anthropology and how he developed the Mississippi Repository...Show More