In Review
Speakman J and the IAEA DLW Database Team (incl. Urlacher SS). Total energy expenditure has declined over the last 4 decades due to declining basal expenditure not reduced activity expenditure.
Luke A and the IAEA DLW Database Team (incl. Urlacher SS). Total energy expenditure and body composition in populations across the socioeconomic spectrum.
Lea AJ, Clark A, Dahl A, Devinsky O, Garcia A, Golden C, Kamau J, Kraft T, Martins D, Pajukanta P, Perry G, Pontzer H, Trumble BC, Urlacher SS, Venkataraman V, Wallace I, Gurven M†, Lieberman D†, Ayroles JF. Evolutionary mismatch and the role of GxE interactions in human disease.
2023
Urlacher SS. (2023) The Energetics of Childhood: Current Understanding and Insights into Human Variation, Evolution, and Health. Yearbook of Biological Anthropology.
Ross CT et al. (incl. Urlacher SS). (2023) Reproductive inequality in humans and other mammals. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 120(22), e2220124120.
2022
Urlacher SS, Kim LY, Luan T, Young L, Adjetey B. (2022) Minimally invasive biomarkers in human and non–human primate evolutionary biology: Tools for understanding variation and adaptation. American Journal of Human Biology 2022:e23811. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/ajhb.23811
Gildner, T. E., Cepon-Robins, T. J., & Urlacher, S. S. (2022). Cumulative host energetic costs of soil-transmitted helminth infection. Trends in Parasitology.
Halsey LG and the IAEA DLW Database Team (incl. Urlacher SS). (2022) Variability in energy expenditure is much greater in males than females. Journal of Human Evolution, 171:103229. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhevol.2022.103229.
Rimbach, R Total energy expenditure is repeatable in adults but not associated with short-term changes in body composition. Nature communications, 13(1), 1-8.
Yamada Y and the IAEA DLW Database Team (incl. Urlacher SS). (2022) Human water intake: great variation associated with environmental and lifestyle factors. Science 378:909-915. DOI: 10.1126/science.abm8668.
Zhang X and the IAEA DLW Database Team (incl. Urlacher SS). (2022) Human total, basal and activity energy expenditures are independent of ambient environmental temperature. iScience 25:104682. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.isci.2022.104682.
2021
Urlacher SS. Child growth and development: new insights from evolutionary energetics. Annals of Human Biology
. Childhood daily energy expenditure does not decrease with market integration and is not related to adiposity in Amazonia. The Journal of Nutrition [Internet]. 2021. | Publisher’s Version
Barrett TM, Liebert MA, Eick GN, Ridgeway‐Diaz JG, Madimenos FC, Blackwell AD, Urlacher SS, Snodgrass JJ. Age‐related patterns of cytomegalovirus antibodies accompanying Epstein‐Barr virus co‐infection. American Journal of Human Biology, e23713.
Careau, V and the IAEA DLW Database Team (incl. Urlacher SS). Energy compensation, adiposity and aging in humans. Current Biology.
DeLouize AM, Liebert MA, Madimenos FC, Urlacher SS, Schrock JM, Cepon-Robins TJ, Gildner TE, Blackwell AD, Harrington CJ, Amir D, Bribiescas RG, Snodgrass JJ, Sugiyama LS. Low prevalence of anemia among Shuar communities of Amazonian Ecuador. American Journal of Human Biology 2021:e23590. DOI: 10.1002/ajhb.23590 | Publisher’s Version
Pontzer, H and the IAEA DLW Database Team (incl. Urlacher SS). Daily energy expenditure through the human life course. Science 373:808-812. DOI: 10.1126/science.abe5017. | Publisher’s Version
. A standard calculation methodology for human doubly labeled water studies. Cell Reports Medicine [Internet]. 2021;2 :100203. | Publisher’s Version
Evolution of Water Conservation in Humans. Current Biology [Internet]. 2021;31 :1-7. | Publisher’s Version
. Pathogen disgust sensitivity protects against infection in a high pathogen environment. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences [Internet]. 2021;118 (8) :e2018552118. | Publisher’s Version
2020
. Associations between market integration and soil-transmitted helminths infection among the Shuar of Amazonian Ecuador. PLOS One [Internet]. 2020;15 (7) :e0236924. | Publisher’s Version
. Disparities in skeletal health among forager-horticulturalists: Cross population comparison of the Bolivian Tsimane and Ecuadorian Shuar. American Journal of Physical Anthropology [Internet]. 2020;171 (1) :50-64. | Publisher’s Version
2019
. Constraint and tradeoffs regulate energy expenditure during childhood. Science Advances [Internet]. 2019;5 (12) :eaax1065. | Publisher’s Version
Soil-transmitted helminth infection and intestinal inflammation among the Shuar of Amazonian Ecuador. American Journal of Physical Anthropology. 2019;170 (1) :65-74.
. High energy requirements and water throughput of adult Shuar forager-horticulturalists of Amazonian Ecuador. American Journal of Human Biology. 2019;31 :e23223.
2018
. Maternal experiences of intimate partner violence and C-reactive protein levels in young children in Tanzania. Social Science & Medicine – Population Health [Internet]. 2018;6 (2018) :107-115. | Publisher’s Version
. Tradeoffs between immune function and childhood growth among Amazonian forager-horticulturalists. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 2018;115 (17) :e3914-3921.
. Market integration predicts human gut microbiome attributes across a gradient of economic development. mSystems. 2018;3 (1) :1-10.
. Evidence for energetic tradeoffs between physical activity and childhood growth across the nutritional transition. Scientific Reports. 2018;8 (369) :1-10.
. Global variation in diurnal cortisol rhythms: Evidence from Garisakang forager-horticulturalists of lowland Papua New Guinea. Stress. 2018;21 (2) :101-109.
2017
. Male social status and its predictors among Garisakang forager horticulturalists of lowland Papua New Guinea. Evolution and Human Behavior. 2017;38 (6) :789-797.
. Growth references for Tsimane forager-horticulturalists of the Bolivian Amazon. American Journal of Physical Anthropology. 2017;162 (3) :441-461.
2016
. Regional variation in Ascaris lumbricoides and Trichuris trichiura infection by age and sex: effects of market integration among the indigenous Shuar of Amazonian Ecuador. Journal of Physiological Anthropology. 2016;35 (28) :1-11.
. Heterogeneous effects of market integration on sub-adult body size and nutritional status among the Shuar of Amazonian Ecuador. Annals of Human Biology. 2016;43 (4) :316-329.
. Validation of an optimized ELISA for quantitative assessment of Epstein-Barr virus antibodies from dried blood spots. Biodemography and Social Biology. 2016;62 (2) :222-233.
. The Application of Knemometry to Measure Childhood Short-Term Growth among the Indigenous Shuar of Ecuador. American Journal of Physical Anthropology. 2016;160 (2) :353-357.
. Physical Growth of the Shuar: Height, Weight, and BMI References for an Indigenous Amazonian Population. American Journal of Human Biology. 2016;28 (1) :16-30.
2015
. Effect of Chewing Betel Nut (Areca catechu) on the Measurement of Salivary Cortisol Levels. American Journal of Physical Anthropology. 2015;158 (1) :151-154.
2014
. Local Domestication of Lactic Acid Bacteria via Cassava Beer Fermentation. PeerJ. 2014;2 :e479. | peerj_2014_colehour.pdf
. Soil Transmitted Helminth Prevalence and Infection Intensity among Geographically and Economically Distinct Shuar Communities in the Ecuadorian Amazon. Journal of Parasitology. 2014;100 (5) :598-607. | journal_of_parasitology_2014_cepon-robins.pdf
2012
. Puberty as a Life History Transition. Annals of Human Biology. 2012;39 (5) :352-360. | ann_hum_biol_2012_ellison.pdf
2011
. First Assessment of Menstrual Cycle Function and Reproductive Endocrine Status in Samoan Women. Human Reproduction. 2011;26 (9) :2518-2524. | human_reproduction_2011_lambert-messerlian.pdf