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I and my students and collaborators use principles from anthropology and evolutionary biology to gain insights into the biological and health impacts of human developmental plasticity. In particular, we focus on the long-term effects of intrauterine and early postnatal environments on human development, adult health, reproduction and life history. Other projects focus on the psychobiology of social relationships, genetics and molecular biology, the evolution of the human brain and evolutionary medicine. See Projects and Publications pages for more. See our study showing that testosterone declines in fathers - published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. See coverage in the New York Times and hear an interview on the BBC World Service. Here is a nicely done television report from Channel 4 (UK). We also discuss the study findings and implications in more detail on a Guest Blog on the Scientific American blog network. Recent research highlights (pubs page has full list of pdfs): Kuzawa CW (2012), Why
evolution needs development, and medicine needs evolution. Int'l
J Epidemiology. 41:223-229. Gettler, LT, McDade TW, Feranil AB, Kuzawa CW (2011), Longitudinal evidence that fatherhood decreases testosterone in human males. Proc Nat Acad of Sci. Supporting information. Kuzawa CW, Thayer Z (2011), The timescales of human adaptation: The role of epigenetic processes Epigenomics. 3(2)221-234. Kuzawa CW, Adair LS, Lee N, McDade TW (2010), Rapid weight gain after birth predicts life history and reproductive strategy in Filipino males, Proc Nat Acad of Sci. Supporting information. 107(39):16800-5 McDade TW, Rutherford J, Adair LS, Kuzawa CW (2010) “Early origins of inflammation: Infectious exposures in infancy predict lower levels of C-reactive protein in adulthood” Proceedings of the Royal Society B 277(1684): 1129-37. Kuzawa CW, Gettler LT, Huang Y-Y, McDade TW, “Mothers have lower testosterone than non-mothers: Evidence from the Philippines”, Hormones and Behavior. 57(4-5): 441-7. Kuzawa CW, Muller M, Gettler L, McDade TW, Feranil A (2009), “Fatherhood, pairbonding and testosterone in the Philippines”, Hormones and Behavior, 56: 429-35. Kuzawa CW, Sweet E (2009), “Epigenetics and the embodiment of race: developmental origins of US racial disparities in cardiovascular health”. Amer J Hum Biol. 21(1): 2-15. Kuzawa CW, Quinn EA (2009), “Developmental origins of adult function and health: Evolutionary hypotheses”, Annual Review of Anthropology, 38: 131-47. Dr. Kuzawa is a founding member of Cells 2 Society, Northwestern’s interdisciplinary center for the study of health disparities. |
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