SoS 105 - Aha Moments and Middle Childhood Research with Dr. Courtney Helfrecht

Our guest this week is Dr. Courtney Helfrecht, assistant professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Alabama. Dr. Helfrecht chats with us about her path to bicultural anthropology and her work on adrenarche and alloparenting in sub-Saharan populations. She tells us about the importance of cooperation and what doing fieldwork far from home may teach us about ourselves. Find out more about Dr. Helfrecht's work at https://chelfrecht.people.ua.edu Read her paper "Life History and Socioecology of Infancy" here: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1002/ajpa.24145 Find her article in the AJHB "Sibling effects on nutritional status: Intersections of cooperation and competition across development" here: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/ajhb.22763 You can contact Dr. Helfrecht at chelfrecht@ua.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 Theresa Gildner, Website: bonesandbehavior.org/theresa_gildner, Email: Theresa.E.Gildner@dartmouth.edu, Twitter: @TEGildner Delaney Glass, Website: dglass.netlify.app/, Email: dglass1@uw.edu, Twitter: @GlassDelaney Alexandra Niclou, Email: aniclou@nd.edu, Twitter: @fiat_Luxandra