Publications

in press

Kuzawa CW, Sweet E, “Epigenetics and the embodiment of race: developmental origins of US racial disparities in cardiovascular health”. Amer J Hum Biol

McDade TW, Rutherford J, Adair LS, Kuzawa CW, “Adiposity and pathogen exposure predict C-reactive protein in Filipino women.” J Nutrition.

Kuzawa CW, “Beyond feast-famine: brain evolution, human life history and the metabolic syndrome”, In Human Evolutionary Biology, M Muehlenbein (ed), Cambridge University Press.

2008

Sharrock, K, Kuzawa, CW, Tanner, S, Leonard, WR, Reyes-Garcia, V, Vadez, V, Huanca, T, McDade, TW “Developmental changes in the relationship between leptin and adiposity in Tsimané children and adolescents”. Amer J Hum Biol 20: 392-8.

Heinke, D, Kuzawa, CW, “Self-reported illness and birth weight in the Philippines: Implications for hypotheses of adaptive fetal plasticity”. Amer J Hum Biol 20: 538-544.

Kuzawa CW, Gluckman PD, Hanson MA, Beedle A, “Evolution, developmental plasticity, and metabolic disease”, In Evolution in Health and Disease (2nd Edition), SC Stearns and JC Koella (eds). Oxford University Press. pp. 253-264.

Kuzawa CW, “The developmental origins of adult health: intergenerational inertia in adaptation and disease” In Evolution and Health, W Trevathan, EO Smith and JJ McKenna (eds). Oxford University Press. pp. 325-349.

2007

Kuzawa, CW, “Developmental origins of life history strategy: growth, productivity and reproduction” Amer J Hum Biol 19(5):654-61.

Kuzawa, CW, EA Quinn and LS Adair, “Leptin in a lean population of Filipino adolescents” Amer J Phys Anthropol, 132(4):642-9.

Kuzawa CW, Gluckman PD, Hanson MA, “Developmental perspectives on the origins of obesity” in Adipose Tissue and Adipokines in Health and Disease. E Fantuzzi and T Mazzone ed., Humana Press.

Book Review: RC Hauspie, N Cameron, L Molinari, Methods in Human Growth Research. Cambridge University Press. 2004. In: Anthropos. 102(1): 262.

Book Review: SC Cunnane, Survival of the Fattest. The Key to Human Brain Evolution. In: Amer J Phys Anthropol 132 (1):158-159.

Digital seminar: Kuzawa CW, “Early Nutrition, Development and Health: Evolutionary Perspectives on the Metabolic Syndrome”, for the digital seminar series Evolutionary Medicine (Randolph Nesse, ed), Published by Henry Stewart Talks.

2005

Kuzawa CW and IL Pike, “The fetal origins of developmental plasticity. Introduction to the special issue.” Amer J Hum Biol 17(1) 1-4.

Kuzawa CW, “The fetal origins of developmental plasticity. Are maternal cues reliable predictors of future nutritional environments?” Amer J Hum Biol 17(1) 5-21.

Lampl, M, Kuzawa C, and P Jeanty, “Growth patterns of the heart and kidney suggest inter-organ collaboration in facultative fetal growth.” Amer J Hum Biol 17(2): 178-94.

Book Review: J Schulkin (ed), Allostasis, Homeostasis, and the Costs of Physiologic Adaptation, Cambridge University Press. In: Human Biology, 77(4) 532-36.

“The origins of the developmental origins hypothesis and the importance of postnatal environments: response to Koletzko”. Am J Hum Biol, 17(5) 662-64.

2004

Kuzawa CW and LS Adair, “A supply-demand model of fetal energy sufficiency predicts lipid profiles in male but not female adolescent Filipinos”. Eur J Clin Nutr, 58(3) 438-48.

McDade, TW, Kuzawa, CW, Adair, LS, and M Beck, “Prenatal and early postnatal environments are significant predictors of total immunoglobulin E concentration in Filipino adolescents.” Clin Exp Allergy, 34 (1) p.44-50.

Kuzawa CW, “Modeling fetal adaptation to nutrient restriction: testing the fetal origins hypothesis with a supply-demand model”. J Nutrition, 134: 194-200.

McDade, T.W. and C. W. Kuzawa, “Fetal programming of immune function: The early origins of immunity in Filipino adolescents.” In: Fetal nutrition and adult disease: Programming of chronic disease through fetal exposure to undernutrition, S.C. Langley-Evans (ed.). pp. 311-332.

2003

Leonard WR, Robertson ML, Snodgrass JJ, Kuzawa CW. “Metabolic correlates of hominid brain evolution.” Comp Biochem Physiol A Mol Integr Physiol. 136(1):5-15.

Kuzawa, CW, Adair, LS, Avila, JL, Cadungog, JHC, and N-A Le, “Atherogenic lipid profiles in Filipino adolescents with low body mass index and low dietary fat intake.” Am J Hum Biol, 15(5):688-96.

Lampl, ML, Kuzawa, CW, and P Jeanty, “Prenatal smoke exposure alters growth in limb proportions and head shape in the midgestation fetus”, Am J Hum Biol 15(4):533-46.

Kuzawa, CW, and LS Adair, “Lipid profiles in an adolescent Filipino population: relationship to birth weight and maternal energy status during pregnancy”, Am J Clin Nutr, 77: 960-66.

2002

Lampl, ML, Kuzawa, CW, and P Jeanty, “Infants thinner at birth exhibit smaller kidneys for their size late in gestation in a sample of fetuses with appropriate growth”, Am J Hum Biol, 14(3): 398-406.

2001

Adair, LS, CW Kuzawa and J Borja, “Maternal energy stores and diet composition during pregnancy program adolescent blood pressure” Circulation, 104(9)1034-9.

McDade, TW, M Beck, CW Kuzawa and LS Adair, “Prenatal undernutrition, postnatal environments, and antibody response to vaccination in adolescence,” Am J Clin Nutr, 74(4)543-8.

McDade, TW, M Beck, CW Kuzawa and LS Adair, “Prenatal undernutrition and postnatal growth are associated with adolescent thymic function”, J of Nutrition, 131: 1225-31.

Adair, LS and CW Kuzawa, “Early growth retardation and syndrome X: Conceptual and methodological issues surrounding the programming hypothesis,” In: R Martorell and F Haschke, eds., Nutrition and Growth, Nestle Nutrition Workshop Series, Vol. 47, pp 333-350. Geneva.

1998

Kuzawa, CW, “Adipose tissue in human infancy and childhood: an evolutionary perspective.” Yearbook of Physical Anthropology, 41: 177-209.

Barrett, RL, CW Kuzawa, TW McDade, GA Armelagos, “The third epidemiologic transition and emerging infectious disease”, Annual Reviews of Anthropology, 27: 247-71.