Sausage of Science

In this episode Dr. Richard Bribiescas discusses his book "How Men Age: What evolution reveals about male health and mortality". He covers it all from natural variations in testosterone to why women live longer than men and how science fiction captures the absurdity of doing science. Dr. Bribiescas is a Professor of Anthropology, Ecology, and Evolutionary Biology at Yale University. He is the prim...

On this week’s episode of The Sausage of Science, we bring you an exciting interview with Dr. Anna Osterholtz who is an Assistant Professor of Bioanthropology at Mississippi State focusing on treatment of the dead and how poetics models can be applied to examine the social role of violence in Croatia and Cyprus. On this episode, she talks with Chris and Cara about her new book entitled “ The Poeti...

We are back for a new season! Listen to our mini episode to catch up with the SoS team and learn what we have in store for this coming season. Regular episodes will be posted every Monday starting next week. Meet our new junior service fellow Andrea Silva-Caballero: https://www.dur.ac.uk/directory/profile/?mode=staff&id=16770 Contact the Sausage of Science Podcast and Human Biology Association: Fa...

Dr. Jeremy DeSilva joined us for an interview on SoS 128. This week, in addition to a replay of his original interview, we hear audio excerpted from First Steps: How upright walking made us human by Jeremy DeSilva, read by Kaleo Griffith. Copyright 2021 by Jeremy DeSilva. Production Copyright 2021, HarperCollins Publishers. All rights reserved. You can find First Steps here: https://www.harpercoll...

Dr. Patricia Wright is a Tropical Biologist, Conservationist, and Primatologist at Stony Brooke University. In this episode, we play an excerpt from her book For the Love of Lemurs, published by Lantern Publishing and Media. You can find print and eBook versions here: https://lanternpm.org/books/for-the-love-of-lemurs/. After the excerpt, we play the original interview with Dr. Wright from episode...

This week’s book reading episode features Survival of the Friendliest: Understanding Our Origins and Rediscovering Our Common Humanity by Dr. Brian Hare and Vanessa Woods. The excerpt is read by René Ruiz and is followed by a re-run of Dr. Hare's interview about his book on the Sausage of Science. Audio excerpted from SURVIVAL OF THE FRIENDLIEST: Understanding Our Origins and Rediscovering Our Com...

For our second book reading episode of the summer we will hear an excerpt from Dr. Herman Pontzer’s new book BURN: New Research Blows the Lid Off How We Really Burn Calories, Lose Weight, and Stay Healthy read by P.J. Ochlan. The reading is followed by a re-run of Dr. Pontzer’s discussion about his book with Chris and Cara which aired earlier this spring. Audio excerpted from BURN: New Research Bl...

To start off our summer book excerpt series we hear a reading from Dr. Dan Lieberman's most recent book "Exercised: Why Something We Never Evolved to Do is Healthy and Rewarding" read by Sean Runnette. The excerpt is followed by a re-run of Chris and Cara's interview with Dr. Lieberman about his book, which aired this spring. Audio excerpted from EXERCISED: Why Something We Never Evolved to Do is...

Alejandra Nuñez-de la Mora is a professor at Universidad Veracruzana in Xalapa, Mexico. She conducts research in Biological Anthropology, Maternal and Child Health, and Reproductive Ecology. Today, Chris and Cara talk to her about the realities of working on a multidisciplinary research team and her future directions after reflecting during the COVID-19 pandemic. You can find out her website here:...

Dr. David Samson, assistant professor of anthropology at the University of Toronto's, work focuses on the link between sleep and human evolution. In this episode he talks about how our vices affect sleep patterns and how those in turn affect our health. He also chats with Chris and Cara about his two most recent publications on how to measure sleep and what modern sleep patterns mean in an evoluti...

Dr. Jeremy DeSilva is an Associate Professor of Anthropology at Dartmouth College. He specializes in hominoid and hominin locomotion. On today’s episode, Cara and Chris discuss two of his books, A Most Interesting Problem: What Darwins Descent of Man Got Right and Wrong About Human Evolution and First Steps: How Upright Walking Made Us Human. You can find out more about Dr. DeSilva, his lab, and h...

Chris and Cara chat with Elizabeth Cho, a PhD candidate in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Missouri. Elizabeth talks about her recent AABA presentation and the research behind it. Her findings on the associations between skeletal variations and climate are the result of her analysis of many different collections all across Asia. You can contact Elizabeth at ecomdd@mail.missouri...

Our guest this week is Mecca Howe, a PhD candidate at Indiana University. Mecca chats with Chris and Cara about what it means to be food insecure and why it is often overlooked. She dives into her research on teenage food marginalization and its effects on health, maturation, and stigma. You can contact Mecca at howemecca@gmail.com Contact the Sausage of Science Podcast and Human Biology Associati...

Today’s episode is part 2 of a 2-part episode with Dr. Josh Snodgrass who is a professor at the University of Oregon. Today Chris and Cara continue the conversation with him about the need for open-access teaching materials in human biology, academic and community service, and future research and service directions. You can find out more about his lab here: https://www.pinniped.net/snodgrasslab.ht...

Today’s episode is part 1 of a 2-part episode with Dr. Josh Snodgrass who is a professor at the University of Oregon. Today Chris and Cara talk with him about how he got into anthropology, the power of collaborative research, and setting up or becoming involved at field sites. Stay tuned for part 2 next week! You can find out more about his lab here: https://www.pinniped.net/snodgrasslab.html and...

Our guest this week is Sammantha Holder, a PhD candidate at the University of Georgia. Sammantha chats with Chris and Cara about her most recent publication in the special AJHB issue "Biocultural approaches to the plasticity of the human skeleton" and her dissertation work on skeletal plasticity in Napoleonic soldiers. You can find Sammantha's paper here: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.100...

On this week’s Sausage of Science, Chris and Cara talk to Stephanie Berger and Jacob S. Griffin who are graduate students in Bioarchaeology at The University of North Carolina and Dr. Sophia Dent who is a Visiting Assistant Professor at Appalachia State University about skeletal plasticity. Specifically, they discuss their roles as co-editors of a special issue in the American Journal of Human Bio...

On this weeks episode, Chris and Cara talk with Dr. Sharon DeWitte who is a Professor at the University of South Carolina in the Department of Anthropology. Much of her work focuses on variation in mortality risks before and after the medieval Black Death as well as demographic implications of the Black Death and its relation to skeletal indicators of puberty. You can find her website here: https:...

Jennifer Cullin is back on the pod! (First interview was Episode 53 in November 2019). She chats with Chris and Cara about the HBA meetings (the annual meeting starts today Monday March 29!!) and the Plenary Session in which she will be presenting her work on fat stigmatization and perception in young adults. Listen to her virtual podium talk at the HBAs today at 2pm EST. You can contact Jennifer...

Dr. Brian Hare is a professor of Evolutionary Anthropology, Psychology and Neuroscience at Duke University and a core member of the Center of Cognitive Neuroscience. He chats with Chris and Cara about his new book "Survival of the Friendliest" and what we can learn from puppies about our own evolution and bipartisanship. Find "Survival of the Friendliest" here: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/b...

Tara Cepon-Robins is an Assistant Professor of Anthropology at The University of Colorado-Colorado Springs and her research uses novel methods to test the Hygiene Hypothesis and Disappearing Microbiota Hypothesis. On today’s episode, Chris and Cara talk to her about her work with the Shuar in Amazonian Ecuador and her work in the Rural American South. You can find out more about her research here:...

Dr. Gary James, a SUNY Distinguished Professor at Binghamton University, passed away on October 15 2020. Dr. James is remembered for his work on blood pressure variation and stress responses in humans. Over the years he was President of the American Human Biology and the American Dermatoglyphics Associations, received the Franz Boas Distinguished Achievement Award, the SUNY Chancellor's Award for...

Herman Pontzer is an Associate Professor of Evolutionary Anthropology and Global Health at Duke University and author of “Burn”, forthcoming March 2nd 2021. In this episode, Chris and Cara talk about his new book which you can find here: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/603894/burn-by-herman-pontzer-phd, the complexity of human metabolism, and so much more! You can find out more about Dr....

Chris and Cara are out of hibernation! Their first guest is Dr. Daniel Lieberman, Edwin M. Lerner II Professor of Biological Sciences and Professor of Human Evolutionary Biology at Harvard University. Dr. Lieberman talks about his newly released book "Exercised: Why something we never evolved to do is healthy and rewarding" and answers Cara's questions about barefoot running and Chris's questions...

On this week’s Sausage of Science, Delaney and Alex bring you a Hackademics panel discussion on graduate research in the time of COVID-19. Luisa Maria Rivera is a Ph. D. student at Emory University studying intergenerational transmission of social experiences, Taylor van Doren is a Ph. D. student at the University of Missouri studying infectious disease, pandemics, and social inequalities, and Kay...