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Dr. Jeremy DeSilva is an Associate Professor of Anthropology at Dartmouth College. He specializes in hominoid and hominin locomotion. On today’s episode, Cara and Chris discuss two of his books, A Most Interesting Problem: What Darwins Descent of Man Got Right and Wrong About Human Evolution and First Steps: How Upright Walking Made Us Human. You can find out more about Dr. DeSilva, his lab, and his work here: https://anthropology.dartmouth.edu/people/jeremy-desilva and on Twitter @desilva_jerry Contact the Sausage of Science Podcast and Human Biology Association: Facebook: www.facebook.com/groups/humanbiologyassociation Website:humbio.org/, Twitter: @HumBioAssoc Cara Ocobock, Website: sites.nd.edu/cara-ocobock/, Email:cocobock@nd.edu, Twitter:@CaraOcobock Chris Lynn, HBA Public Relations Committee Chair, Website: cdlynn.people.ua.edu/, Email: cdlynn@ua.edu, Twitter:@Chris_Ly Delaney Glass, Website: dglass.netlify.app/, Email: dglass1@uw.edu, Twitter: @GlassDelaney Alexandra Niclou, Email: aniclou@nd.ed

Chris and Cara chat with Elizabeth Cho, a PhD candidate in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Missouri. Elizabeth talks about her recent AABA presentation and the research behind it. Her findings on the associations between skeletal variations and climate are the result of her analysis of many different collections all across Asia. You can contact Elizabeth at ecomdd@mail.missouri.edu Contact the Sausage of Science Podcast and Human Biology Association: Facebook: www.facebook.com/groups/humanbiologyassociation Website:humbio.org/, Twitter: @HumBioAssoc Cara Ocobock, Website: sites.nd.edu/cara-ocobock/, Email:cocobock@nd.edu, Twitter:@CaraOcobock Chris Lynn, HBA Public Relations Committee Chair, Website: cdlynn.people.ua.edu/, Email: cdlynn@ua.edu, Twitter:@Chris_Ly Delaney Glass, Website: dglass.netlify.app/, Email: dglass1@uw.edu, Twitter: @GlassDelaney Alexandra Niclou, Email: aniclou@nd.edu, Twitter: @fiat_Luxandra

Our guest this week is Mecca Burris, a PhD candidate at Indiana University. Mecca chats with Chris and Cara about what it means to be food insecure and why it is often overlooked. She dives into her research on teenage food marginalization and its effects on health, maturation, and stigma. You can contact Mecca at burris@iu.edu or on Twitter at @MBurris16 Contact the Sausage of Science Podcast and Human Biology Association: Facebook: www.facebook.com/groups/humanbiologyassociation Website:humbio.org/, Twitter: @HumBioAssoc Cara Ocobock, Website: sites.nd.edu/cara-ocobock/, Email:cocobock@nd.edu, Twitter:@CaraOcobock Chris Lynn, HBA Public Relations Committee Chair, Website: cdlynn.people.ua.edu/, Email: cdlynn@ua.edu, Twitter:@Chris_Ly Delaney Glass, Website: dglass.netlify.app/, Email: dglass1@uw.edu, Twitter: @GlassDelaney Alexandra Niclou, Email: aniclou@nd.edu, Twitter: @fiat_Luxandra

Today’s episode is part 2 of a 2-part episode with Dr. Josh Snodgrass who is a professor at the University of Oregon. Today Chris and Cara continue the conversation with him about the need for open-access teaching materials in human biology, academic and community service, and future research and service directions. You can find out more about his lab here: https://www.pinniped.net/snodgrasslab.html and contact him here: https://www.pinniped.net/snodgrass.html Contact the Sausage of Science Podcast and Human Biology Association: Facebook: www.facebook.com/groups/humanbiologyassociation Website:humbio.org/, Twitter: @HumBioAssoc Cara Ocobock, Website: sites.nd.edu/cara-ocobock/, Email:cocobock@nd.edu, Twitter:@CaraOcobock Chris Lynn, HBA Public Relations Committee Chair, Website: cdlynn.people.ua.edu/, Email: cdlynn@ua.edu, Twitter:@Chris_Ly Delaney Glass, Website: dglass.netlify.app/, Email: dglass1@uw.edu, Twitter: @GlassDelaney Alexandra Niclou, Email: aniclou@nd.edu, Twitter: @fiat_Luxandra

Today’s episode is part 1 of a 2-part episode with Dr. Josh Snodgrass who is a professor at the University of Oregon. Today Chris and Cara talk with him about how he got into anthropology, the power of collaborative research, and setting up or becoming involved at field sites. Stay tuned for part 2 next week! You can find out more about his lab here: https://www.pinniped.net/snodgrasslab.html and contact him here: https://www.pinniped.net/snodgrass.html Contact the Sausage of Science Podcast and Human Biology Association: Facebook: www.facebook.com/groups/humanbiologyassociation Website:humbio.org/, Twitter: @HumBioAssoc Cara Ocobock, Website: sites.nd.edu/cara-ocobock/, Email:cocobock@nd.edu, Twitter:@CaraOcobock Chris Lynn, HBA Public Relations Committee Chair, Website: cdlynn.people.ua.edu/, Email: cdlynn@ua.edu, Twitter:@Chris_Ly Delaney Glass, Website: dglass.netlify.app/, Email: dglass1@uw.edu, Twitter: @GlassDelaney Alexandra Niclou, Email: aniclou@nd.edu, Twitter: @fiat_Luxandra

Our guest this week is Sammantha Holder, a PhD candidate at the University of Georgia. Sammantha chats with Chris and Cara about her most recent publication in the special AJHB issue "Biocultural approaches to the plasticity of the human skeleton" and her dissertation work on skeletal plasticity in Napoleonic soldiers. You can find Sammantha's paper here: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ajhb.23457 You can contact her at sammholder@uga.edu and at @HolderSammantha on Twitter Contact the Sausage of Science Podcast and Human Biology Association: Facebook: www.facebook.com/groups/humanbiologyassociation Website:humbio.org/, Twitter: @HumBioAssoc Cara Ocobock, Website: sites.nd.edu/cara-ocobock/, Email:cocobock@nd.edu, Twitter:@CaraOcobock Chris Lynn, HBA Public Relations Committee Chair, Website: cdlynn.people.ua.edu/, Email: cdlynn@ua.edu, Twitter:@Chris_Ly Delaney Glass, Website: dglass.netlify.app/, Email: dglass1@uw.edu, Twitter: @GlassDelaney Alexandra Niclou, Email: aniclou@nd.edu, Twitte

On this week’s Sausage of Science, Chris and Cara talk to Stephanie Berger and Jacob S. Griffin who are graduate students in Bioarchaeology at The University of North Carolina and Dr. Sophia Dent who is a Visiting Assistant Professor at Appalachia State University about skeletal plasticity. Specifically, they discuss their roles as co-editors of a special issue in the American Journal of Human Biology “Biocultural approaches to the plasticity of the human skeleton” which you can find here: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/15206300/2021/33/2 You can reach Stephanie mestan@live.unc.edu, Jacob on Twitter @J_SGriffin or jgriff55@live.unc.edu and Sophia dentsc@appstate.edu Contact the Sausage of Science Podcast and Human Biology Association: Facebook: www.facebook.com/groups/humanbiologyassociation Website:humbio.org/, Twitter: @HumBioAssoc Cara Ocobock, Website: sites.nd.edu/cara-ocobock/, Email:cocobock@nd.edu, Twitter:@CaraOcobock Chris Lynn, HBA Public Relations Committee Chair, Website: cdlynn.people.

On this weeks episode, Chris and Cara talk with Dr. Sharon DeWitte who is a Professor at the University of South Carolina in the Department of Anthropology. Much of her work focuses on variation in mortality risks before and after the medieval Black Death as well as demographic implications of the Black Death and its relation to skeletal indicators of puberty. You can find her website here: https://www.sc.edu/study/colleges_schools/artsandsciences/anthropology/our_people/directory/dewitte_sharon.php and you can follow her on Twitter @SharonDeWitte Contact the Sausage of Science Podcast and Human Biology Association: Facebook: www.facebook.com/groups/humanbiologyassociation Website:humbio.org/, Twitter: @HumBioAssoc Cara Ocobock, Website: sites.nd.edu/cara-ocobock/, Email:cocobock@nd.edu, Twitter:@CaraOcobock Chris Lynn, HBA Public Relations Committee Chair, Website: cdlynn.people.ua.edu/, Email: cdlynn@ua.edu, Twitter:@Chris_Ly Delaney Glass, Website: dglass.netlify.app/, Email: dglass1@uw.edu, Twitter:

Jennifer Cullin is back on the pod! (First interview was Episode 53 in November 2019). She chats with Chris and Cara about the HBA meetings (the annual meeting starts today Monday March 29!!) and the Plenary Session in which she will be presenting her work on fat stigmatization and perception in young adults. Listen to her virtual podium talk at the HBAs today at 2pm EST. You can contact Jennifer Cullin at jcullin@indiana.edu and @jennifermcullin You can view the HBA 2021 Meeting Program at https://www.humbio.org/2021-meeting-program/ Contact the Sausage of Science Podcast and Human Biology Association: Facebook: www.facebook.com/groups/humanbiologyassociation Website:humbio.org/, Twitter: @HumBioAssoc Cara Ocobock, Website: sites.nd.edu/cara-ocobock/, Email:cocobock@nd.edu, Twitter:@CaraOcobock Chris Lynn, HBA Public Relations Committee Chair, Website: cdlynn.people.ua.edu/, Email: cdlynn@ua.edu, Twitter:@Chris_Ly Delaney Glass, Website: dglass.netlify.app/, Email: dglass1@uw.edu, Twitter: @GlassDelan

Dr. Brian Hare is a professor of Evolutionary Anthropology, Psychology and Neuroscience at Duke University and a core member of the Center of Cognitive Neuroscience. He chats with Chris and Cara about his new book "Survival of the Friendliest" and what we can learn from puppies about our own evolution and bipartisanship. Find "Survival of the Friendliest" here: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/550437/survival-of-the-friendliest-by-brian-hare-and-vanessa-woods/ Learn more about Dr. Hare at: https://brianhare.net Contact Dr. Hare at apeminds@gmail.com and follow him on Twitter @bharedogguy Contact the Sausage of Science Podcast and Human Biology Association: Facebook: www.facebook.com/groups/humanbiologyassociation Website:humbio.org/, Twitter: @HumBioAssoc Cara Ocobock, Website: sites.nd.edu/cara-ocobock/, Email:cocobock@nd.edu, Twitter:@CaraOcobock Chris Lynn, HBA Public Relations Committee Chair, Website: cdlynn.people.ua.edu/, Email: cdlynn@ua.edu, Twitter:@Chris_Ly Delaney Glass, Website: dgla

Tara Cepon-Robins is an Assistant Professor of Anthropology at The University of Colorado-Colorado Springs and her research uses novel methods to test the Hygiene Hypothesis and Disappearing Microbiota Hypothesis. On today’s episode, Chris and Cara talk to her about her work with the Shuar in Amazonian Ecuador and her work in the Rural American South. You can find out more about her research here: https://anthropology.uccs.edu/tara-robins and on Twitter @HelminthLady. Contact the Sausage of Science Podcast and Human Biology Association: Facebook: www.facebook.com/groups/humanbiologyassociation Website:humbio.org/, Twitter: @HumBioAssoc Cara Ocobock, Website: sites.nd.edu/cara-ocobock/, Email:cocobock@nd.edu, Twitter:@CaraOcobock Chris Lynn, HBA Public Relations Committee Chair, Website: cdlynn.people.ua.edu/, Email: cdlynn@ua.edu, Twitter:@Chris_Ly Delaney Glass, Website: dglass.netlify.app/, Email: dglass1@uw.edu, Twitter: @GlassDelaney Alexandra Niclou, Email: aniclou@nd.edu, Twitter: @fiat_Luxandra

Dr. Gary James, a SUNY Distinguished Professor at Binghamton University, passed away on October 15 2020. Dr. James is remembered for his work on blood pressure variation and stress responses in humans. Over the years he was President of the American Human Biology and the American Dermatoglyphics Associations, received the Franz Boas Distinguished Achievement Award, the SUNY Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Teaching, and was a SUNY Distinguished Service Professor. He published over 300 peer-reviewed articles. Dr, Little and Dr. Brown chat with Cara and Alex about Gary's legacy to the field of anthropology and human biology and his mentorship to students in anthropology, nursing, and other fields. Read Dr. James's last published review article on allostasis and adaptation here: https://anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/aman.13366 You can find Dr. James's In Memoriam by Dan Brown and Helene Van-Berge Landry here: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ajhb.23536 You can contact Dr.

Herman Pontzer is an Associate Professor of Evolutionary Anthropology and Global Health at Duke University and author of “Burn”, forthcoming March 2nd 2021. In this episode, Chris and Cara talk about his new book which you can find here: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/603894/burn-by-herman-pontzer-phd, the complexity of human metabolism, and so much more! You can find out more about Dr. Pontzer and his research at his website: https://globalhealth.duke.edu/people/pontzer-herman, on Twitter @HermanPontzer and you can find out more about Hadza Fund on Twitter @HadzaFund and www.hadzafund.org Dr. Pontzer is also hiring a post-doc soon, applications are due at the end of March. You can find out more here: https://physanth.org/jobs/2842/ Apply to the NSF Cultural Anthropology Methods Program (CAMP) by 3/15/21 at methods4all.org Link for submissions to the special issue of Evolution, medicine, and Public Health: https://academic.oup.com/emph/pages/call-for-papers-evolutionary-medicine-and-palaeopathol

Chris and Cara are out of hibernation! Their first guest is Dr. Daniel Lieberman, Edwin M. Lerner II Professor of Biological Sciences and Professor of Human Evolutionary Biology at Harvard University. Dr. Lieberman talks about his newly released book "Exercised: Why something we never evolved to do is healthy and rewarding" and answers Cara's questions about barefoot running and Chris's questions about how to motivate teenagers to get off the couch. You can find Dr. Lieberman's book at https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/557099/exercised-by-daniel-e-lieberman/ Get in touch with Dr. Lieberman at danlieb@fas.harvard.edu Link to another talk by Dr. Lieberman about his book, mentioned in this episode https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LbgukiJy6hY&fbclid=IwAR3X_ntR5FzuhmX8Tk0chy9C038lT_71CGEIuAcAN0i7p02vWcChIt64P90 Apply to the NSF Cultural Anthropology Methods Program (CAMP) by 3/15/21 at methods4all.org Link for submissions to the special issue of Evolution, medicine, and Public Health: https://academic

On this week’s Sausage of Science, Delaney and Alex bring you a Hackademics panel discussion on graduate research in the time of COVID-19. Luisa Maria Rivera is a Ph.D. student at Emory University studying intergenerational transmission of social experiences, Taylor van Doren is a Ph.D. student at the University of Missouri studying infectious disease, pandemics, and social inequalities, and Kayla Hurd is a Ph.D. student at Notre Dame studying food perception, edible insects, and health. You can find them on Twitter @guichitarivera, @taylor_vandoren and @KaylaJHurd. Apply to NSF CAMP at methods4all.org by March 15th. Contact the Sausage of Science Podcast and Human Biology Association: Facebook: www.facebook.com/groups/humanbiologyassociation Website:humbio.org/, Twitter: @HumBioAssoc Cara Ocobock, Website: sites.nd.edu/cara-ocobock/, Email:cocobock@nd.edu, Twitter:@CaraOcobock Chris Lynn, HBA Public Relations Committee Chair, Website: cdlynn.people.ua.edu/, Email: cdlynn@ua.edu, Twitter:@Chris_Ly Delan

On this week's SoS episode, we bring you a guest episode from the Inking of Immunity podcast, brought to you by Chris Lynn, Becci Owens, Mike Smetana, Julia Sponholtz & Patricia Arnett. In this episode, they interview Dr. Gemma Angel and discuss her experience with preserved tattoos. Dr. Gemma Angel is an interdisciplinary scholar specialising in the history and anthropology of the European tattoo, post-mortem tattoo collecting and preservation practices, artefacts manufactured from human skin, and medical museum collections of human remains. She completed her doctoral thesis at University College London in collaboration with the Science Museum in 2013, on a collection of 300 preserved tattooed human skins of nineteenth-century French origin. She has also previously trained as a tattooist. Gemma is currently Programme Director for the MA/MSc Museum Studies programme at the University of Leicester School of Museum Studies, where she lectures on material culture, museum anthropology, and the history of objects

On this weeks SoS episode, we bring you a guest episode from Inking of Immunity podcast, brought to you by Chris Lynn, Becci Owens, Mike Smetana, Julia Sponholtz & Patricia Arnett. In this episode, they interview Dr. Aaron Deter-Wolf. Aaron Deter-Wolf is a Prehistoric Archaeologist with the Tennessee Division of Archaeology in Nashville, where his responsibilities include managing ancient Native American sites on State-owned lands and conducting archaeological excavations and research. In addition to his work in Tennessee, for the past decade Aaron has been a leading researcher in developing the archaeological study of tattooing. Those efforts include using contextual analysis and microscopic use-wear signatures to identify tattooing tools in archaeological collections, efforts to systematically document tattoos on mummified human remains, and experiments recreating and testing ancient and historic tattooing implements. In 2009 Aaron organized the first American academic symposium to examine ancient and ea

Our second bonus episode is a reading by Dr. Sera Young, an associate professor in the department of anthropology at Northwestern University. Dr. Young is sharing with us the preface and the first chapter from her book Craving Earth: Understanding Pica, the urge to eat clay, starch, ice & chalk. The reading is followed by a rerun of Chris and Cara's interview with Dr. Young (Episode 34). You can find Craving Earth: Understanding Pica, the urge to eat clay, starch, ice & chalk at http://cup.columbia.edu/book/craving-earth/9780231146098 Learn more about Dr. Young's research at https://anthropology.northwestern.edu/people/faculty/sera-young.html You can contact Dr. Young at via email at sera.young@northwestern.edu and on Twitter @ProfSeraYoung Contact the Sausage of Science Podcast and Human Biology Association: Facebook: www.facebook.com/groups/humanbiologyassociation Website:humbio.org/, Twitter: @HumBioAssoc Cara Ocobock, Website: sites.nd.edu/cara-ocobock/, Email:cocobock@nd.edu, Twitter:@CaraOcobock C

In this week’s episode we bring you an excerpt from “Lazy, Crazy, & Disgusting: Stigma and the Undoing of Global Health” by Drs Brewis and Wutich. Afterwards, you’ll hear their prior interview with Chris and Cara on water pirates, stigma, and the book itself. Drs. Alex Brewis and Amber Wutich are both President’s Professors in the School of Human Evolution and Social Change at Arizona State University. Drs. Brewis and Wutich discuss their paths to researching water, stigma, and becoming a writing/researching duo. Be sure to check out their AJHB issue: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/15206300. Additionally, check out their latest book, "Lazy, Crazy, and Disgusting: Stigma and the Undoing of Global Health" and check out their websites for their upcoming projects: http://amberwutich.org/ and http://alexbrewis.org/about-alex/. To get in touch with Dr. Brewis, send her an email at Alex.Brewis@asu.edu or follow her on twitter @brewis_alex. To get in touch with Dr. Wutich, send her an email at Amber.Wutich@a

Dr. Kara Hoover from the Department of Anthropology at the University of Alaska Fairbanks chats with Chris and Cara about her research on the human sense of smell. She tells us about the development of testing tools needed to understand olfactory ability and how olfactory research can provide insight into human adaptation, the long-term consequences of Covid-19, and the relationship between pollution and cognitive impairment. To learn more about Dr. Hoover's work and the often overlooked, yet incredibly important subject of olfactory research please visit https://smellofevolution.com You can read Dr. Hoover's paper on "Field-testing olfactory ability to understand human olfactory ecology" in the American Journal of Human Biology here: https://doi.org/10.1002/ajhb.23411 and contact Dr. Hoover via email at kchoover@alaska.edu or on Twitter at @KaraCHoover Contact the Sausage of Science and Human Biology Association: Facebook: www.facebook.com/groups/humanbiologyassociation Website:humbio.org/, Twitter: @Hu