Sausage of Science

Cara and Chris chat with Dr. Marc Kissel, an assistant professor in the Department of Anthropology at Appalachian State University. Dr. Kissel is broadly interested in the processes by which we became human, and he uses methods grounded in paleoanthropology, genetics, and semiotics to address this question. In this interview he discusses is work on human warfare, including his recent book (written with Nam Kim) titled “Emergent Warfare in Our Evolutionary Past”. He also shares some ideas for best practices to engage students of all backgrounds and help them succeed. Learn more about Dr. Kissel’s work here: https://marckissel.netlify.app/ You can also email him at marc.kissel@gmail.com or follow him on Twitter @MarcKissel Contact the Sausage of Science 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: https://dglass.netlify.app/, Email: dglass1@uw.edu, Twitter: @GlassDelaney Alexandra Niclou, Email: aniclou@nd.edu, Twitter: @fiat_Luxandra

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

This week's guest is Katie Sayre, a PhD student at the University of Southern California. Katie's work focuses on aging across different populations and lifestyles. She chats with Chris and Cara about her work with the Hadza of Tanzania and what it takes to stay healthy while growing old. Find Katie's publication on physical function and aging here: https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10.1098/rstb.2019.0608?casa_token=3KYS1MLaungAAAAA%3AwwMSkPgHi6aC7HSwABUWdn1PoxdudyINZ4PO4KuPMfF6hHEIbC-3k_6UtZ_VzMQ6XeXds3jWc0WU You can contact Katie at mksayre@usc.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

Athena Aktipis is an Associate Professor of Psychology at Arizona State University and is the co-director of the Human Generosity Project. She is also the chair of the Zombie Apocalypse Medicine Meeting: http://www.zombiemed.org/ and host of the podcast Zombified: https://www.zombified.org/ on Channel Zed: https://www.channelzed.org/. Today Chris and Cara talk to her about science communication, how zombification is everywhere, and her new book The Cheating Cell: How evolution helps us understand and treat cancer, which you can find here: https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691163840/the-cheating-cell as well as on Audible: https://www.audible.com/pd/The-Cheating-Cell-Audiobook/0691205094, You can find out more about Dr. Aktipis on her website: http://www.athenaaktipis.org/ and on Twitter: @AthenaAktipis the Sausage of Science 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:https://dglass.netlify.app/, Email: dglass1@uw.edu, Twitter: @GlassDelaney Alexandra Niclou, Email: aniclou@nd.edu, Twitter: @fiat_Luxandra

In this special 100th SoS episode, Chris and Cara chat with our very own podcast producer Alexandra Niclou. A PhD candidate at the University of Notre Dame, Alex studies the many facets of human energetics and physiological adaptations. In particular, her work focuses on brown fat activity variation in adults under different climatic and energetic conditions, exploring the metabolic cost of brown fat and how physical exercise influences its activity. Her dissertation work in Samoa is funded by NSF and the Wenner-Gren Foundation. Email Alex at aniclou@nd.edu and follower her on Twitter @fiat_Luxandra Contact the Sausage of Science 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: https://dglass.netlify.app/, Email: dglass1@uw.edu, Twitter: @GlassDelaney Alexandra Niclou, Email: aniclou@nd.edu, Twitter: @fiat_Luxandra

This is the first of a series of episodes highlighting the work and interests of the Sausage of Science team. First up is our associate producer, Dr. Theresa Gildner. Theresa is currently a postdoctoral fellow at Dartmouth College and will be starting a new position as an Assistant Professor in the Anthropology Department at Washington University in St, Louis in January. She chats with Cara and Chris about her work with the Shuar Health and Life History Project and about her recent paper on the potential roles of parasite infections in mitigating the effects of COVID. Read Dr. Gildner's paper on "Market Integration and soil-transmitted helminth infection among the Shuar of Amazonian Ecuador here: https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article/comments?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0236924 and her fresh-off-the-press paper "Old Friends Meet a new Foe - A potential for immune-printing parasites in mitigating COVID-19 morbidity and mortality" here: https://academic.oup.com/emph/advance-article/doi/10.1093/emph/eoaa037/5930904?guestAccessKey=e26874a1-ad3b-42fe-a622-4da350a137c2 You can contact Dr. Gildner at Theresa.E.Gildner@dartmouth.edu & find out more about her work at https://tgildner.wixsite.com/theresa-gildner The Shuar Health and Life History Project https://www.shuarproject.org Contact the the Sausage of Science and Human Biology Association: Facebook: www.facebook.com/groups/humanbiologyassociation Website: www.humbio.org Twitter: @HumBioAssoc Cara Ocobock, Website: sites.nd.edu/cara-ocobock/ Twitter:@CaraOcobock Email: cocobock@nd.edu 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

Ruby Fried is an Assistant Professor of Health Sciences at the University of Alaska-Anchorage. She is currently researching traditional food security and its effects on physical and mental health on St Paul Island with the Aleut community. Additionally, she is working on research investigating the widespread effects of COVID-19 in rural Alaska among Alaska Native peoples. In this episode, Chris and Cara talk to her about her work with Alaska Native women and children, subsistence food access as a nexus of resistance and resilience, and much more! You can find more information about Dr. Ruby Fried and about her research here: https://www.uaa.alaska.edu/academics/college-of-health/departments/institute-for-circumpolar-health-studies/staff.cshtml the Sausage of Science 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:https://dglass.netlify.app/, Email: dglass1@uw.edu, Twitter: @GlassDelaney Alexandra Niclou, Email: aniclou@nd.edu, Twitter: @fiat_Luxandra

This week Cara and our assistant producer Alex chat with Dr. David Raichlen, a professor of biological sciences at the University of Southern California. We discuss his work on physical (in)activity in the Hadza people and why “how” we rest matters. We also delve into how applying evolutionary perspectives may help us slow down brain aging and why no one has thought of installing squatting racks in rodent cages. Read Dr. Raichlen’s paper on “Sitting, squatting, and the evolutionary biology of human activity” here: https://dukespace.lib.duke.edu/dspace/bitstream/handle/10161/21129/Raichlen%202020%20PNAS_Inactivity.pdf?sequence=2&isAllowed=y and his Scientific American article on “Why your brain needs exercise” here: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/why-your-brain-needs-exercise/ Email Dr. Raichlen at draichle@usc.edu And learn more about his work at https://dornsife.usc.edu/ebel/ Contact the the Sausage of Science and Human Biology Association: Facebook: www.facebook.com/groups/humanbiologyassociation Website: www.humbio.org Twitter: @HumBioAssoc Cara Ocobock, Website: http://sites.nd.edu/cara-ocobock/ Twitter:@CaraOcobock Email: cocobock@nd.edu Chris Lynn, HBA Public Relations Committee Chair, Website: http://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

Dr. Frank Johnston, a Professor Emeritus of biological anthropology at the University of Pennsylvania, passed away on August 20, 2020. Dr. Johnston was known for his work in child development, especially the impact of lifestyle variation on nutritional status and growth. He received many honors throughout his prolific career and held several notable positions, including president of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists, as well as Editor-in-Chief of the American Journal of Physical Anthropology and the American Journal of Human Biology (which he helped establish). Dr. Johnston was also a strong advocate for applying anthropological knowledge to actively engage with communities. In this memorial episode, Chris and Cara discuss his many contributions to the field with his former doctoral students Drs. Larry Schell and Babette Zemel. The memoriam piece co-written by Dr. Schell with Drs. Penny Gordon-Larsen and Linda A. Valleroy can be found here: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/ajhb.23514?af=R To learn more about Dr. Schell, please visit: https://www.albany.edu/anthropology/faculty/lawrence-m-schell You can learn more about Dr. Zemel’s work here: https://www.chop.edu/clinical-staff/zemel-babette-s Contact the Sausage of Science 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: https://dglass.netlify.app/, Email: dglass1@uw.edu, Twitter: @GlassDelaney Alexandra Niclou, Email: aniclou@nd.edu, Twitter: @fiat_Luxandra

Tisa Loewen is a bioarcheologist and Ph.D. student at Arizona State University. Her current work studies the Romanized peoples that once lived-in modern-day Croatia and the Eastern Adriatic. She uses quantitative genetics of dental nonmetric traits to understand regional biological relationships and to provide a biohistorical perspective on relational identities. Tisa is also a contributor to Black in Bioanthropology and involved in AnthroIllustrated. In this episode, Cara & Chris talk to Tisa about her journey as an anthropologist and the service commitments she has contributed to. You can find more information about Tisa on Twitter: @AnthropologisTL and her website: https://sites.google.com/asu.edu/tloewen Black in Bioanth: https://twitter.com/BlackinBioAnth And AnthroIllustrated: https://anthroillustrated.com/ the Sausage of Science 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:https://dglass.netlify.app/, Email: dglass1@uw.edu, Twitter: @GlassDelaney Alexandra Niclou, Email: aniclou@nd.edu, Twitter: @fiat_Luxandra