“The Sausage of Science Podcast with Cara & Chris”
From the Public Relations Committee of the Human Biology Association
From the Public Relations Committee of the Human Biology Association
Episode 9 – Doomed to Mad Maxian World? The Evolution of Inequality (Mary Shenk & Siobhan Mattison)
In our 9th episode we talk with Drs. Mary Shenk and Siobhán Mattison about the evolution of persistent institutional inequality. Dr. Shenk is an associate professor of anthropology at Penn State University and Dr. Mattison [...]
Episode 8 – Infant Growth & Baby Fat (Morgan Hoke)
In this episode, we talk to Dr. Morgan Hoke, a biocultural anthropologist and Assistant Professor in Anthropology and the Population Studies Center at UPenn. We talk about her work on infant growth and maternal health [...]
Episode 7 – Of Goldilocks & Baby Fat in Birth Weight (Liz Holdsworth & Larry Schell)
This episode is the third of our show format interviews of people with recent publications in the American Journal of Human Biology, the official journal of the Human Biology Association. It is in a way [...]
Episode 6 – Stress, Sex, and Plague (Sharon DeWitte)
In this episode, we talk to Dr. Sharon DeWitte, a bioarchaeologist and Associate Professor at the University of South Carolina. We talk about health improvements after Black Death in London, feminist bioarchaeology, and secular trends [...]
Episode 5 – Don’t Fight that Cellulite (Cara Ocobock)
This episode is the premiere of our short format interviews of people with recent publications in the American Journal of Human Biology, the official journal of the Human Biology Association. Dr. Cara Ocobock is Assistant [...]
Episode 4 – Skin Color as an Evolutionary Adaptation (Nina Jablonski)
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 [...]