Offspring Human Fertility Behavior in Biodemographic Perspective (2003) / Chapter Skim
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Contributors and Other Workshop Participants
Contributors and Other Workshop Participants
Pages 358-364
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This research is based on detailed information about individual behavior and life histories and is focused primarily on the Savannah baboon population in Amboseli National Park in southern Kenya. The second involves the relationship between genes and behavior: How does behavior affect a population's genetic structure, and how do genetic relationships influence behavior?
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Her laboratory work focuses on identifying the neural systems that respond to stress and understanding how changes in the functional activity of these systems modulate stressresponsive physiological systems, including behavior, neuroendocrine function, cardiovascular function, and glucose tolerance. The stresses studied include metabolic stresses (such as dieting, missing meals, and exercise)
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He is also a research associate with the Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion and chairs the Population Investigation Committee. He is currently a member of the National Research Council's Committee on Population and of Academia Europaea.
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Her scholarship focuses on the evolutionary biology and behavior of humans using cross-cultural and human evolutionary ecology perspectives. Since 1990 she has collaborated with Hillard Kaplan on a multiyear project funded by the National Science Foundation on fertility and investment in children among men in Albuquerque.
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from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He has been in the quantitative psychology program at the University of Oklahoma since 1981, with visiting research and teaching positions in psychology and statistics at the University of Hawaii, Ohio State, the University of North Carolina, Duke University, and the University of Southern Denmark.
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Since 1987 she has been principal investigator or coprincipal investigator on projects supported by such major funding agencies as the National Science Foundation, the National Geographic Society, the Ford Foundation, and the Spencer Foundation. In 1988-1993 she received a W.T.
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364 OTHER WORKSHOP PARTICIPANTS Christine Bachrach National Institute of Child Health and Human Development Bethesda, MD Barney Cohen Committee on Population National Research Council Peter T Ellison Department of Anthropology Harvard University John Haaga Population Reference Bureau Washington, DC Jennifer Harris National Institute on Aging Bethesda, MD Kristin Hawkes Department of Anthropology University of Utah Kim Wallen Department of Psychology Emory University Maxine Weinstein Center for Population and Health Georgetown University OFFSPRING
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